Usually means: Enough to meet specific needs.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word sufficient:

General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. sufficient: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. sufficient: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sufficient: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sufficient: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sufficient: Vocabulary.com
  6. Sufficient, sufficient: Wordnik
  7. sufficient: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. sufficient: Wiktionary
  9. sufficient: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. sufficient: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. sufficient: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. sufficient: Dictionary.com
  13. sufficient: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Sufficient: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Sufficient: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. sufficient: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. sufficient: Rhymezone
  18. sufficient: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. sufficient: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. sufficient: Free Dictionary
  21. sufficient: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. sufficient: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. sufficient: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. sufficient: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. sufficient: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sufficient: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sufficient: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sufficient: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. sufficient: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Of a type or kind that suffices, that satisfies requirements or needs.
adjective:  Possessing adequate talents or accomplishments; of competent power or ability; qualified; fit.
adjective:  (archaic) Capable of meeting obligations; responsible.
adjective:  (obsolete) Having enough money to meet obligations and live comfortably.

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