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Sufficient vs Underwise - What's the difference?

sufficient | underwise |

As adjectives the difference between sufficient and underwise

is that sufficient is equal to the end proposed; adequate to wants; enough; ample; competent; as, while underwise is lacking adequate or sufficient wisdom; insufficiently wise.

As a determiner sufficient

is the smallest amount needed.

As an adverb underwise is

on or to the bottom or underside of; beneath; underneath.

As a noun underwise is

underside.

As a verb underwise is

to make, render, or prove to be underwise.

sufficient

English

(Webster 1913)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Equal to the end proposed; adequate to wants; enough; ample; competent; as,
    • We have provision sufficient for the family
    This army is sufficient to defend the country.
    There is not sufficient access to the internet in the some small country villages.
  • Possessing adequate talents or accomplishments; of competent power or ability; qualified; fit.
    • A two-week training course is sufficient to get a job in the coach-driving profession.
  • (archaic) Capable of meeting obligations; responsible.
  • * 1668 , (Samuel Pepys), December 23 1668
    • ...to take the best ways we can, to make it known to the Duke of York; for, till Sir J. Minnes be removed, and a sufficient man brought into W. Pen's place, when he is gone, it is impossible for this Office ever to support itself.
  • self-sufficient; self-satisfied; content.

    • Derived terms

    * self-sufficient * sufficiency * sufficiently

    Related terms

    * suffice

    See also

    * adequate * ample * enough * plenty

    Determiner

    (en determiner)
  • The smallest amount needed.
    • Sufficient of us are against this idea that we should stop now.

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    underwise

    English

    Etymology 1

    From .

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • On or to the bottom or underside of; beneath; underneath.
  • * 1822 , Louis Eustache Ude, The French cook :
    • [...] next stuff the skin of the leg of mutton, sew it underwise , wrap the whole in a cloth, and braize it [...]
  • * 1858 , United States Congress, Congressional edition :
    • In forming double volute springs, plates of sheet steel are employed. These are heated and are then introduced underwise , one at a time, beneath the mandrel B upon the support I, until the central part of the plate is beneath the mandrel.
  • Below; hereafter.
  • * 1866 , Charles Dickens, All the year round :
    • Then as how to continue the quotations self-praise, and description of matters as hardly never occured(SIC) or transpirated, follows underwise : [...]
  • * 1924 , League of Nations, Official journal :
    • Unless underwise provided by this law, decisions shall be given by a majority of votes of the members present, other than the President.
  • * 1962 , Columbia University. Legislative Drafting Research Fund, United States, Constitutions of the United States, national and State :
    • All other grants, gifts and devises, that have been, or may hereafter be, made to this state and not underwise appropriated by the terms of the grant, gift, or devise the interest arising from all the funds mentioned in the [...]

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Underside.
  • * 1905 , Cornelius McLeod Percy, Frank Percy, George H. Winstanley, The mechanical equipment of collieries :
    • [...] but a certain amount of clearance is allowed in all the clips to enable the pipes to expand and contract freely according to their temperature, or to accommodate themselves to any underwise movement.
  • * 1909 , Cassier's magazine:
    • The same firm, in a suction dredger built specially for the Rangoon port improvements, fit very powerful water jets on the underwise of the suction nozzle to disturb the hard, sandy bottom.

    Etymology 2

    From .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Lacking adequate or sufficient wisdom; insufficiently wise.
  • * 1847 , The herald of truth:
    • Let us, therefore, be neither overwise nor underwise , neither hasty nor tardy, but liberal, tolerant, and full of hope.
  • * 1877 , Washington Gladden, The Christian way: whither it leads and how to go on :
    • Some underwise people, ministers even affect to despise the knowledge that comes through books, and pretend to draw all their inspirations from the incidents and associations of common life; [...]
  • * 1921 , American printer and lithographer:
    • These few illustrative examples will suggest that if the proofreader's assistant is or remains "underwise " or inattentive in the matter of adapted pauses in reading manuscript, and fails to clearly sound sibilants and coalescents, some one will "lose out" on proof nunciat ion.
  • * 2006 , Tim Beaglehole, A life of J.C. Beaglehole: New Zealand scholar :
    • I know it's overclever and underwise in places.

    Verb

    (underwis)
  • To make, render, or prove to be underwise.
  • * 1970 , Portugal. Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros, Portugal replies in the United Nations :
    • This in turn would underwise and render nugatory the sovereign equality of [...]
  • * 1986 , United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Current Problems of Economic Integration :
    • Institutional defects may, in certain cases, further paralyse an integration movement and underwise the strength of the regional organization.