sufficiency

Roget category 639

5. Words relating to the voluntary powers
› 5.2. Prospective volition
›› 5.2.2. Subservience to ends

#639. Sufficiency

noun

sufficiency, adequacy, enough, withal, satisfaction, competence — no less — quantum sufficit [Lat.], Q.
S. mediocrity etc. (average) 29.
fill — fullness etc. (completeness) 52 — plenitude, plenty — abundance — copiousness etc. adj. — amplitude, galore, lots, profusion — full measure — good measure pressed down and running, over." luxuriance etc. (fertility) 168 — affluence etc. (wealth) 803 — fat of the land — a land flowing with milk and honey —" cornucopia — horn of plenty, horn of Amalthaea — mine etc. (stock) 636.
outpouring — flood etc. (great quantity) 31 — tide etc. (river) 348 — repletion etc. (redundancy) 641 — satiety etc. 869.

verb

be sufficient etc. adj. — suffice, do, just do, satisfy, pass muster — have enough etc. n. — eat.
one's fill, drink one's fill, have one's fill — roll in, swim in — wallow in etc. (superabundance) 641 — wanton.
abound, exuberate, teem, flow, stream, rain, shower down — pour, pour in — swarm — bristle with — superabound.
render sufficient etc. adj. — replenish etc. (fill) 52.

adjective

sufficient, enough, adequate, up to the mark, commensurate, competent, satisfactory, valid, tangible.
measured — moderate etc. (temperate) 953.
full, etc. (complete) 52 — ample — plenty, plentiful, plenteous — plenty as blackberries — copious, abundant — abounding etc. v. — replete, enough and to spare, flush — choke-full, chock-full — well-stocked, well-provided — liberal — unstinted, unstinting — stintless^† — without stint — unsparing, unmeasured — lavish etc. 641 — wholesale.
rich — luxuriant etc. (fertile) 168 — affluent etc. (wealthy) 803 — wantless^† — big with etc. (pregnant) 161.
unexhausted^†, unwasted^† — exhaustless, inexhaustible.

adverb

sufficiently, amply etc.

adjective

— full — in abundance etc. n.. with no sparing hand — to one's heart's content, ad libitum, without stint.

phrase

cut and come again" [Crabbe]; das Beste ist gut genug [G.].

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