All 8 Uses of
sufficient
in
A Passage to India
- It never bored them to hear words, words; they breathed them with the cool night air, never stopping to analyse; the name of the poet, Hafiz, Hali, Iqbal, was sufficient guarantee.†
Chpt 2sufficient = adequate (enough -- often without being more than is needed)
- "Tell him I have called, that is sufficient," he said, tearing the protest up.†
Chpt 2 *
- There, games, work, and pleasant society had interwoven, and appeared to be sufficient substructure for a national life.†
Chpt 9
- For the City Magistrate they shall be sufficient perhaps, and he for her.†
Chpt 11
- And then he discovered the simple and sufficient explanation of the mystery.†
Chpt 16
- We are all to blame in the sense that we ought to have seen the expedition was insufficiently guaranteed, and stopped it.†
Chpt 20insufficiently = inadequately (in a manner that does not provide enough)standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in insufficiently means not and reverses the meaning of sufficiently. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
- This would be sufficient.†
Chpt 28sufficient = adequate (enough -- often without being more than is needed)
- I have sufficient money left to start myself, and heaps of friends of my own type.†
Chpt 29