Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: sufficiency
IPA transcription: [səf'ɪʃənsi]
Pronunciations of sufficiency
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noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: sufficiency, adequacy
    Meaning: the quality of being sufficient for the end in view; "he questioned the sufficiency of human intelligence"
  • Synonyms: enough, sufficiency
    Meaning: an adequate quantity; a quantity that is large enough to achieve a purpose; "enough is as good as a feast"; "there is more than a sufficiency of lawyers in this country"
  • Synonyms: sufficiency
    Meaning: sufficient resources to provide comfort and meet obligations; "her father questioned the young suitor's sufficiency"
Usage examples
  • "Our sufficiency is of God!"
  • Then he and his men, with a sufficiency of cord, began to fly it high overhead.
  • From year to year his one prayer was for an abundant Nile and a plentiful crop, not that he might thereby enrich himself, but that he might thereby secure a sufficiency for himself and his family and suffer less from the rapacious tyranny and heartless cruelty of those never-resting oppressors, his rulers and all who, as officials or favourites, were lifted even a little above his own level.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Bicycle lighting, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Marshall Plan, License CC BY-SA 4.0