Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: suffice
IPA transcription: [səf'aɪs]
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: suffice, do, answer, serve
    Meaning: be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity; "A few words would answer"; "This car suits my purpose well"; "Will $100 do?"; "A 'B' grade doesn't suffice to get me into medical school"; "Nothing else will serve"
Usage examples
  • Of this wild weird writing, a single example will suffice.
  • These few examples must suffice of the great class of metamorphic rocks.
  • "I have an ever-growing loaf, which will suffice both for you and ourselves," replied the princess.
  • Neither is it given to me to meet with a good man; let me but see a man of constancy, and it will suffice.
  • Suffice it that to disguise themselves they had to take the clothes of two peasants, whom they waylaid in a wood.
  • "It is not given to me," he said, "to meet with a sage; let me but behold a man of superior mind, and that will suffice.
  • They were talking confidentially as I sat down; the trifling episode of my approach did not suffice to stem the full stream of their conversation.
  • He killed for the love of it--because he was quick-tempered-- to avoid arrest--for his own amusement--any reason that came to his mind would suffice.
  • Without going into further detail, suffice it to say that in June, 1846, he published his last paper, and in it announced to the world his theoretical position for the planet.
  • It does not bear talking of." And for a little while she hoped he would not talk of it, and that a silent rumination might suffice to restore him to the relish of his own smooth gruel.