Synonyms for suffice
səˈfaɪs, -ˈfaɪzsuf·fice

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1. suffice

   To satisfy is to furnish just enough to meet physical, mental, or spiritual desire. To sate or satiate is to gratify desire so fully as for a time to extinguish it. To cloy or surfeit is to gratify to the point of revulsion or disgust. Glut is a strong but somewhat coarse word applied to the utmost satisfaction of vehement appetites and passions; as, to glut a vengeful spirit with slaughter; we speak of glutting the market with a supply so excessive as to extinguish the demand. 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. Compare PAY; REQUITE.

   Synonyms:
   cloy, content, fill, glut, sate, satiate, satisfy, surfeit

   Antonyms:
   check, deny, disappoint, refuse, restrain, restrict, starve, stint, straiten, tantalize

   Preposition:
   Satisfy with food, with gifts, etc.; satisfy one (in the sense of make satisfaction) for labors and sacrifices; satisfy oneself by or upon inquiry.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.0 / 2 votes

1. suffice

   Synonyms:
   satisfy, content, be enough

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:2.6 / 5 votes

1. suffice, do, answer, serveverb

   be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity

   "A few words would answer"; "This car suits my purpose well"; "Will $100 do?"; "A 'B' grade doesn't suffice to get me into medical school"; "Nothing else will serve"

   Synonyms:
   dish up, practice, service, process, act, respond, function, behave, dish out, get along, serve up, fare, answer, make, swear out, reply, arrange, coif, wait on, execute, manage, cause, do, coiffure, assist, help, make out, perform, attend, exercise, resolve, come, coiffe, serve well, serve, set, practise, attend to, dress, dish

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1. sufficeverb

   Synonyms:
   be enough, be sufficient

2. sufficeverb

   Synonyms:
   satisfy, content, be enough for

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1. List of paraphrases for "suffice":

   sufficient

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How to use suffice in a sentence?

1. MG:

   You're the most uninvited ever, Yet you force and barge in. You come with such a despise, Which bring forth sadness and torments which we cannot suffice. You leave the scars that couldn't be healed And memories that cannot be faded. Yet you come!! I curse you that you wouldn't see the bleak light of happiness for all eternity!! And be haunted by darkest demons of fraternity.

2. Stephen Vladeck:

   That order, like its predecessors dating back to the 1940s, imposes both procedural and substantive requirements on what information can properly be classified -- and how. Suffice it to say,' because I said it' is not one of the appropriate criteria for classifying national security information.

3. Shana Alexander:

   A plane is a bad place for an all-out sleep, but a good place to begin rest and recovery from the trip to the faraway places you've been, a decompression chamber between Here and There. Though a plane is not the ideal place really to think, to reassess or reevaluate things, it is a great place to have the illusion of doing so, and often the illusion will suffice.

4. Meister Eckhart:

   If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is thank you, that would suffice.

5. A. E. Houseman:

   Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.