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Definition sufficiently in American English

sufficiently adverb

adverb
/səˈfɪʃ(ə)ntli/
1

to the degree that is needed for a particular purpose

Example

Eventually the police felt they had a sufficiently large body of evidence.

Example

You must wait until the soil is sufficiently dried.

Example

Often it is not sufficiently clear from the picture captions what we are looking at.

Example

By 1998, both missions had grown sufficiently to be able to sustain their own minister.

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Definition sufficiently in American English