| Main Entry: | sufficiency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | adequacy |
Synonyms: |
enough, plenty |
| Concept: | Sufficiency. |
| Category: | 2. Subservience to ends; actual subservience |
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-nouns
sufficiency, adequacy, enough, withal, quantum sufficit, satisfaction, competence; no less., mediocrity (average)., fill; fullness (completeness); plenitude, plenty; abundance; copiousness; amplitude, galore, lots, profusion; full measure; "good measure pressed down and running over"., luxuriance (fertility); affluence (wealth); fat of the land; "a land flowing with milk and honey"; cornucopia; horn of plenty, horn of Amalhaea; mine (stock)., outpouring; flood (great quantity); tide (river); repletion (redundance); satiety.
-verbs
be sufficient; suffice, do, just do, satisfy, pass muster; have enough; eat one's fill, drink one's fill, have one's fill; roll in, swim in; wallow in (superabundance) ; wanton., abound, exuberate, teem, flow, stream, rain, shower down; pour, pour in; swarm; bristle with; superabound., render sufficient; replenish (fill).
-adjectives
sufficient, enough, adequate, up to the mark, commensurate, competent, satisfactory, valid, tangible., measured; moderate (temperate)., full (complete); ample; plenty, plentiful, plenteous; plenty as blackberries; copious, abundant; abounding; replete, enough and to spare, flush; choke-full; well-stocked, well-provided; liberal; unstinted, unstinting; stintless; without stint; unsparing, unmeasured; lavish; wholesale., rich; luxuriant (fertile); affluent (wealthy); wantless; big with (pregnant)., unexhausted, unwasted; exhaustless, inexhaustible.
-adverbs
sufficiently, amply; full; in abundance; with no sparing hand; to one's heart's content, ad libitum, without stint.
-phrases
"cut and come again" [Crabbe]; das Beste ist gut genug.
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Antonyms: |
insufficiency (not enough), redundance (too much)] |
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| Main Entry: | adequacy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ability, competency in some |
Synonyms: |
action capability, capacity, commensurateness, competence, enough, fairness, plenty, requisiteness, satisfactoriness, sufficiency, suitableness, tolerableness |
Antonyms: |
inadequacy, inadequateness, insufficiency |
| Main Entry: | capacity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | volume; limit of volume held |
Synonyms: |
accommodation, amplitude, bulk, burden, compass, contents, dimensions, expanse, extent, full, holding ability, holding power, latitude, magnitude, mass, measure, proportions, quantity, range, reach, retention, room, scope, size, space, spread, standing room only, sufficiency, sweep |
| Notes: | applied to a person, ability and capacity mean about the same thing but are grammatically different: an ability to do something, a capacity for doing something; ability is qualitative while capacity is quantitative capacity refers to a general ability to comprehend an issue or perform a task; capability implies a reference to one of a set of such abilities |
| Main Entry: | comfort |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | good feeling; ease |
Synonyms: |
abundance, alleviation, amenity, assuagement, bed of roses, cheer, cheerfulness, complacency, contentment, convenience, coziness, creature comforts, enjoyment, exhilaration, facility, gratification, happiness, luxury, opulence, peacefulness, pleasure, plenty, poise, quiet, relaxation, relief, repose, rest, restfulness, satisfaction, snugness, succor, sufficiency, warmth, well-being |
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aggravation, annoyance, bother, botheration, distress, exasperation, irritation, torment, torture |
| Main Entry: | efficacy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | efficiency; productiveness |
Synonyms: |
ability, adequacy, capability, capableness, capacity, competence, effect, effectiveness, efficaciousness, energy, force, influence, performance, potency, power, strength, success, sufficiency, use, vigor, virtue, weight |
Antonyms: |
failure, inefficacy, inefficiency, unproductiveness, uselessness, weakness |
| Main Entry: | enough |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | plenty |
Synonyms: |
abundance, adequacy, ample supply, ampleness, competence, plenitude, right amount, sufficiency, sufficient |
Antonyms: |
inadequacy, insufficiency |
| Main Entry: | fill |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | capacity |
Synonyms: |
all one wants, ample, enough, filler, padding, plenty, satiety, stuffing, sufficiency, sufficient |
Antonyms: |
emptiness |
| Main Entry: | fullness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abundance, breadth |
Synonyms: |
adequateness, ampleness, amplitude, broadness, completeness, completion, comprehensiveness, congestion, copiousness, curvaceousness, dilation, distension, enlargement, entirety, extensiveness, fill, glut, plenitude, plenty, plenum, profusion, repletion, roundness, satiation, satiety, saturation, scope, sufficiency, surfeit, swelling, totality, tumescence, vastness, voluptuousness, wealth, wholeness, wideness |
Antonyms: |
emptiness, incompleteness, need, void, want |
| Main Entry: | much |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | a great deal |
Synonyms: |
a lot, abundance, all kinds of, amplitude, appreciable amount, barrel, breadth, completeness, copiousness, excess, exuberance, fullness, gobs, great quantity, heaps, loads, lots*, lump, mass, mess*, mountain, multiplicity, oodles*, overage, oversupply, pack, peck, pile, plentifulness, plenty, plethora, profuseness, riches, scads, sufficiency, superabundance, superfluity, thousands, tons, very much, volume, wealth |
Antonyms: |
little |