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

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

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

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

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

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