Synonyms of suffices

suffices

verb

present tense third-person singular of suffice

as in serves

to be enough

I was told I have to wear shoes—will thong sandals suffice?

Synonyms & Similar Words

• serves
• does
• satisfies
• suits
• answers
• contents
• quenches
• satiates
• sates
• assuages

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of suffices

But why buy brand new items when an old pillowcase suffices? — Wendy Rose Gould, Martha Stewart, 14 May 2026

That rationale for military power no longer suffices. — Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 11 May 2026

These techniques create synergy capable of overcoming even sophisticated cyber defenses, but usually internet access suffices for these cyber actors to get the job done. — Jim Richberg, Forbes.com, 26 Feb. 2026

This is not a moment where simply modeling democratic and humanitarian principles by our own behavior suffices. — Ernesto Burden, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2026

No single material suffices to replicate that distinctive human texture. — Camila Domonoske, NPR, 16 Dec. 2025

And, if identity suffices in defining the art work, what else about it is overlooked along that way? — Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025

Creating a Partiful event or even texting the group suffices. — Shelby Wax, Vogue, 29 Aug. 2025

The complete sentence, housed in a single Arabic word, أحبّك, suffices when the world closes in and there is no room for longer declarations, for the leisure of language and its constructions. — Nima Hasan august 15, Literary Hub, 15 Aug. 2025