All 4 Uses
sufficient
in
The Secret Sharer
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- A sufficiently fierce story to make an old judge and a respectable jury sit up a bit.†
*sufficiently = adequately (in a manner that provides enough -- often without being more than is needed)
- His anxiety was in answer, a sufficient answer, to the question I had put to him.†
sufficient = adequate (enough -- often without being more than is needed)
- He was very slow about it; but I dominated my nervousness sufficiently not to shout after him.†
sufficiently = adequately (in a manner that provides enough -- often without being more than is needed)
- After a while, when sufficiently recovered to speak in a steady voice, I instructed my mate to put the ship round at eight o'clock himself.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(sufficient) adequate (enough -- often without being more than is needed)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)