Thesaurus.com
Dictionary.com
Definitions

sufficient

[suh-fish-uhnt] / səˈfɪʃ ənt /


Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Unified staff, the charter “failed to meet or make sufficient progress toward meeting standards that provide a benefit to the pupils.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026

British Defence Secretary John Healey resigned on Thursday, in a shock move which he blamed on Prime Minister Keir Starmer and the finance ministry failing to commit sufficient resources to defence investment.

From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026

“If they can’t get sufficient investment from the private sector to maximize AI development and deployment, then they will consider taking stakes in some subset of it,” Haines told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 8, 2026

For most individual investors, these options will be sufficient for exposure purposes, financial advisers say, but there are other types of crypto ETFs for more sophisticated investors.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026

His next task, to get to the treasure left by a gold miner in a more intricate and difficult maze, at first defeated him when he tried to solve it prematurely, without sufficient study.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady




Vocabulary lists containing sufficient


Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Look it up. Learn it forever.

Remember "sufficient" for good with VocabTrainer. Expand your vocabulary effortlessly with personalized learning tools that adapt to your goals.

Take me to Vocabulary.com