All 3 Uses of
sufficient
in
Animal Farm
- By late summer a sufficient store of stone had accumulated, and then the building began, under the superintendence of the pigs.
p. 61..1sufficient = adequate (enough -- often without being more than is needed)
- His two slogans, 'I will work harder' and 'Napoleon is always right,' seemed to him a sufficient answer to all problems.
p. 61..8 *sufficient = adequate (good enough)
- Sometimes the long hours on insufficient food were hard to bear, but Boxer never faltered.
p. 118..5insufficient = inadequate (not adequate)standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in insufficient means not and reverses the meaning of sufficient. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
Definition:
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(sufficient) adequate (enough -- often without being more than is needed)