suffices

Meets the need

Suffices means "is enough" or "meets the requirement." It's the third-person singular form of suffice: A simple apology suffices.

The phrase suffice it to say introduces a summary or the essential point: Suffice it to say, we won't be working together again.

adequacy

enough

Meeting the requirement

ample · suitable · passable · reasonable · tolerable · competent · serviceable · decent · proper · fitting

morphology

affixes

Word-modifying additions

derivational · inflectional · root · stem · morpheme · conjugation · declension · agglutination · transfix · word-formation

plural

appendices

Added sections after main text

vortices · bureaux · criteria · phenomena · apices · codices · helices · cervices · dominatrices

Opposites
adequacy/meeting requirements

sufficesfalls short

Fails to meet standard

fails · lacks · disappoints · misses the mark · underwhelms

abundance vs scarcity

sufficesexceeds

Goes past a boundary

surpasses · overflows · abounds · overwhelms · goes overboard

Phrases
Family

sufficient, suffice, insufficient, sufficiency, insufficiency, insufficiently, sufficed, self-sufficient, self-sufficiency

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Everyday, not technical · Rated G