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He will tell you that if you continue to use pepper like that for a long duration--say seventy or eighty years--you will have iron enough in your stomach, from the filings, to make a ten-pound dumb-bell, and blistering stuff sufficient from the Spanish fly to draw all the interest of the National Debt.

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  1. adjective Being as much as is needed.
  2. adjective Archaic Competent; qualified.
  3. Syntax Note
    Synonyms: sufficient, adequate, enough
    These adjectives mean being what is needed without being in excess: has sufficient income to retire comfortably; bought an adequate supply of food; drew enough water to fill the tub.
    Antonym: insufficient

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  • Living close to the mountains for generations and struggling to be self-sufficient, they develop their minds in different ways You're probably right. —  Braun_lilian_Jackson_13_The_Cat_Who_Moved_a_Mountain
  • "Self-sufficient, my sweet, not self-serving There is a difference?" —  Garwood, Julie - Lion's Lady
  • We're pretty much self-sufficient, and if we can't build it or grow it, we can trade for it in Fulton. —  Asimov'sSF,Jan2004
  • I asked London about the issue of spousal support and he stated that when there are two parties who are self-sufficient, there is usually no support awarded. —  Celebrity Photos and News at ExpoSay
  • I'd also have needed to make the code running on the board more self-sufficient, and have it just provide a water status indication whenever it had enough power to do so, instead of being a fairly dumb device like it currently is. —  Planet Debian
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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin sufficiēns, sufficient-, present participle of sufficere, to suffice; see suffice.

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  1. = French suffisant = Spanish suficiente = Portuguese sufficiente = Italian sofficiente, from Latin sufficien(t-)s, present participle of sufficere, be sufficient, suffice: see suffice. Cf. suffisant, the older form.
 

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