All 3 Uses of
sufficient
in
The Hobbit
- Their ponies were lost or killed, and they would have to wait some time before Smaug relaxed his watch sufficiently for them to dare the long way on foot.†
Chpt 12 *
- Also they would be able to reopen and guard some other gate, so that the besiegers would have to encircle the whole mountain; and for that they had not sufficient numbers.†
Chpt 17
- Yet this would be perilous, if the goblins were in sufficient numbers to overrun the Mountain itself, and so attack them also from behind and above; but there was no time for make any other plan, or to summon any help.†
Chpt 17
Definition:
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(sufficient) adequate (enough -- often without being more than is needed)