sufficiently

Etymology

sufficient + -ly

adv

1. (manner) In a sufficient manner; enough.
   Once we had eaten and drunk sufficiently, we padded off to sleep.
   I prefer to think that birds have a sufficiently developed sense of humour to enjoy the spectacle of a human being hunched beneath a bush kissing the back of their hand. 1980, Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book, page 112
2. (degree) To a sufficient extent.
   We wanted to build a tepee, but we couldn't find sufficiently long sticks.
   Attempts by Waterloo signalmen to clear the points by power operation eventually exhausted point motor batteries, which are fed by trickle chargers, and a blown fuse accentuated the problem; thus, even when the points had been cleared of ice, no power was available to operate them until the batteries were sufficiently recharged. 1962 March, “The New Year Freeze-up on British Railways”, in Modern Railways, page 159