sufficient
Meets the need
Sufficient means enough to meet a need or purpose—adequate but not necessarily abundant.
A few hours should be sufficient.
We have sufficient evidence to proceed.
The word often appears in formal or technical contexts: sufficient funds, sufficient cause, sufficient notice.
Something sufficient satisfies requirements without excess.
Meeting the requirement
- acceptableMeeting minimum standards
- satisfactoryMeeting minimum requirements
- passableMinimally sufficient quality
- decentAcceptably good
reasonable · competent · fair · tolerable · serviceable · functional · workable · usable
Lacking any covering
- basicFundamental in nature
- minimumSmallest possible quantity
- borderlineEdge of acceptability
- marginalBarely adequate
just enough · scant · modest · limited · mere · simple · frugal · sparse
Sufficient quantity, and then some
- abundantExisting in great quantity
- plentifulExisting in abundance
- copiousExisting in abundance
- generousWilling to give freely
bountiful · profuse · extensive · considerable · substantial · sizeable · goodly · comfortable
Free from external control
- autonomousSelf-directed and free
- self-sustainingAble to continue independently
- self-supportingAble to maintain oneself
- autarkicEconomically self-contained
enough
Meeting the requirement
- acceptableMeeting minimum standards
- satisfactoryMeeting minimum requirements
- passableMinimally sufficient quality
decent · reasonable · competent · fair · tolerable · serviceable · functional · workable · usable · suitable
bare
Lacking any covering
- basicFundamental in nature
- minimumSmallest possible quantity
- borderlineEdge of acceptability
just enough · marginal · scant · modest · limited · mere · simple · frugal · sparse · lean
plenty
Sufficient quantity, and then some
generous · bountiful · profuse · extensive · considerable · substantial · sizeable · goodly · comfortable · liberal
independent
Free from external control
- autonomousSelf-directed and free
- self-sustainingAble to continue independently
- self-supportingAble to maintain oneself
autarkic · self-contained · self-reliant · resourceful · capable
- philosophical termsSocratic, Kantian, Cartesian, Aristotelian, dialectical
- adequacyadequate, enough, satisfactory, acceptable, passable
- availabilityavailable, unavailable, sold out, in stock, out of stock
- qualitiesgood, bad, better, best, useful
- fullnessfull, empty, half-full, filled, half-empty
- moderationmoderation, in moderation, restraint, self-control, moderately
sufficientinsufficient
Below required quantity
inadequate · deficient · lacking · wanting · short
sufficientexcessive
Surpassing reasonable bounds
surplus · too much · overabundant · superfluous · redundant
- sufficient conditionWhat ensures a conclusion
- sufficient reasonComplete explanation for existence
insufficient, sufficient condition, sufficiently, sufficiency, insufficiency, insufficiently, self-sufficient, self-sufficiency, self-sufficiently