All 3 Uses
sufficient
in
The Pit and the Pendulum
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- I observed that the outlines of these monstrosities were sufficiently distinct, but that the colors seemed faded and blurred, as if from the effects of a damp atmosphere.†
sufficiently = adequately (in a manner that provides enough -- often without being more than is needed)
- Notwithstanding terrifically wide sweep (some thirty feet or more) and the its hissing vigor of its descent, sufficient to sunder these very walls of iron, still the fraying of my robe would be all that, for several minutes, it would accomplish.†
sufficient = adequate (enough -- often without being more than is needed)
- I have observed that, although the outlines of the figures upon the walls were sufficiently distinct, yet the colors seemed blurred and indefinite.
*sufficiently = adequately (in a manner that provides enough -- often without being more than is needed)
Definitions:
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(1)
(sufficient) adequate (enough -- often without being more than is needed)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)