Synonyms for suffice
Definitions
- v. 1
To be enough or sufficient; to meet the need (of anything); to be adequate; to be good enough.
For this plum cake, two eggs should suffice.
Related words
- Word family
- sufficient
Forms
- Past participle
- sufficed
e.g. sufficed → served, answered, satisfied, worked…
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Much less than is needed to satisfy may suffice a frugal or abstemious person; less than a sufficiency may content one of a patient and submissive spirit.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- answer To my surprise, she could not answer the question.
- satisfy The earth can satisfy our needs but not our greed.
- satiate Ziri wanted to satiate his curiosity.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| suffice | falling | |
| answer | steady | |
| satisfy | steady | |
| satiate | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 2 letters
- do1
- 4 letters
- work1
- 5 letters
- serve1
- 6 letters
- answer2
- 7 letters
- satisfy3, satiate
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (answer2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- suffire
- Italiano
- bastare
- Español
- bastar
- Deutsch
- ausreichen