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| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
| Class V. Words Releasing to the Voluntary Powers |
| Division (I) Individual Volition |
| Section II. Prospective Volition |
| 2. Subservience to Ends |
| 1. Actual Subservience |
| 639. Sufficiency. |
| NOUN: | SUFFICIENCY, adequacy, enough, wherewithal, quantum sufficit [L.], satisfaction, competence; no less. MEDIOCRITY (average) [See Mean]. FILL; fullness (completeness) [See Completeness]; plenitude, plenty; abundance; copiousness &c. adj.; amplitude, galore [rare], lots [colloq.], profusion; full measure; “good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over” [Bible]. LUXURIANCE (fertility) [See Productiveness]; affluence (wealth) [See Wealth]; fat of the land; “a land flowing with milk and honey” [Bible]; cornucopia; horn of -plenty, - Amalthæa; mine (stock) [See Store]. OUTPOURING; flood (great quantity) [See Greatness]; tide (river) [See River]; repletion (redundance) [See Redundance]; satiety [See Satiety]. RICH MAN (wealth) [See Wealth]; financier, banker, creditor [See Credit]; plutocrat. |
| VERB: | BE SUFFICIENT &c. adj.; suffice; do, just do [both colloq.], satisfy, pass muster; have enough &c. n.; eat -, drink -, have- one’s fill; roll in, swim in; wallow in (superabundance) [See Redundance]; wanton. ABOUND, exuberate, teem, flow, stream, rain, shower down; pour, pour in; swarm; bristle with; superabound. RENDER SUFFICIENT &c. adj.; replenish (fill) [See Completeness]. |
| ADJECTIVE: | SUFFICIENT, enough, adequate, up to the mark, commensurate, competent, satisfactory, valid, tangible. MODERATE (temperate) [See Temperance]; measured. AMPLE; full (complete) [See Completeness]; plenty, plentiful, plenteous; plenty as black-berries; copious, abundant; abounding &c. v.; replete, enough and to spare, flush; chock-full or choke-full; well-stocked, well-provided; liberal; unstinted, unstinting; stintless; without stint; unsparing, unmeasured; lavish [See Redundance]; wholesale. unexhausted, unwasted; exhaustless, inexhaustible. RICH; luxuriant (fertile) [See Productiveness]; affluent (wealthy) [See Wealth]; wantless; big with (pregnant) [See Production]. |
| ADVERB: | SUFFICIENTLY, amply &c. adj.; full; in abundance &c. n.; with no sparing hand; to one’s heart’s content, ad libitum [L.], without stint; to the good. |
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