SUFFICIENTLY Synonyms: 75 Similar and Opposite Words

sufficiently

adverb

Definition of sufficiently

as in enough

in or to a degree or quantity that meets one's requirements or satisfaction after eight tutoring sessions, I felt sufficiently prepared for the entrance exam

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as in good

in a satisfactory way it's not great literature, but this whodunit is sufficiently suspenseful

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Recent Examples of sufficiently In an unsigned opinion, a majority of the justices said the administration is likely to win its argument that the group suing to stop construction cannot show its been sufficiently harmed. — Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2026 Other speakers, including those who work in public service, asked the board to sufficiently fund public programs that have long had to go without sufficient funding. — Sofi Zeman august 31, Kansas City Star, 31 Aug. 2026 That's an enormous battery for a PHEV – sufficiently large that for many owners, the gasoline engine could remain largely dormant during normal commuting. — New Atlas, 29 Aug. 2026 But Shanes questioned whether grouping Jews under a single ethnic category would produce sufficiently specific data for those purposes, or instead obscure differences among Jewish populations with distinct ancestries. — Naomi Taxay, Sacbee.com, 28 Aug. 2026 In any event, Bret is sufficiently moved to start lying and counting extra votes for Debbie. — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2026 The campaign is geared towards challenging the CBC’s opposition to the bill; the group alleges that the bill’s authors did not sufficiently take into account the perspectives of Black athletes, coaches, and others. — Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 27 Aug. 2026 Resolving individual stars in other galaxies is difficult, but Andromeda and Triangulum are close and large enough, and telescopes like Roman (and JWST and Hubble) are sufficiently eagle-eyed, to spot them. — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 27 Aug. 2026 Kannan’s ability to manage so many characters while developing them all sufficiently to feel vivid and real … The ending has lingered in my mind long after the final page. — Literary Hub, 21 Aug. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for sufficiently

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Anna Watson’s lighting keeps much of the house just dim enough to make the imagination dangerous, while Tony winner Gareth Fry’s sound design surrounds the audience with ominous noises whose sources aren’t always immediately clear.

— Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 26 Aug. 2026
Caltrans recently got far enough into the design process for the retrofit that the agency is now launching its environmental analysis of the project and expects to release a draft environmental study in early 2027.

— David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of enough

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That’s tough to do against a good-hitting team, especially in a big part of their order, middle part of their order.

— Justice delos Santos, Mercury News, 23 Aug. 2026
That includes whether the 16 jobs are good-paying professional careers, hourly wage jobs, or something else.

— Olivia Young, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of good

Adverb

Critics say her tenure as chair hasn’t adequately met the moment.

— Sandra McDonald, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2026
If a parent has an illness so contagious that the hospital can’t adequately protect other patients from it, such as tuberculosis, the parent and child would probably be put in an isolation room with special airflow to contain germs.

— Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of adequately

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Concerning her daughter’s hiatus, her mother, Carla Guevara-Laforteza, reassured fans that Sophia is doing fine and finding ways to keep herself busy.

— Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 24 Aug. 2026
Drugstore shampoos work just fine, if not, better than some of their more expensive counterparts.

— Jessie Quinn, StyleCaster, 16 Aug. 2026

Definition of fine

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As for Apple, Amazon and Sony, all three companies have strong technology businesses in addition to theatrical and streaming content, which may align nicely with Imax's tech-heavy business.

— Sarah Whitten, CNBC, 28 Aug. 2026
None of this would worry me if the systems failed loudly, but a model out of its depth returns fluent, confident and nicely formatted text that happens to be wrong.

— Faisal Saeed, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of nicely

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SoCal likely in the clear A red blob on the hurricane center's forecast map well south of Mexico's Baja California Peninsula represents a developing tropical system, one that some models show could eventually impact California.

— Doyle Rice, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2026
It’s been a decade since the company best known for sucking up hair balls and dust bunnies blew with great force into the beauty business.

— Jenny Bailly, Allure, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of well

Adverb

Matthew McConaughey hopes that Woody Harrelson has a more than alright, alright, alright 65th birthday.

— Derek Lawrence, Entertainment Weekly, 25 July 2026
And in new data released this week from the Ronald Reagan Institute, there are very clear warnings that the kids aren’t alright with MAGA.

— Philip Elliott, Time, 1 July 2026

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