Usually means: Meeting the required standard adequately.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word up to snuff:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. up to snuff: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. up to snuff: Merriam-Webster
  3. up to snuff, up to snuff: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. up to snuff: Collins English Dictionary
  5. up to snuff: Wordnik
  6. up to snuff: Wiktionary
  7. up to snuff: Dictionary.com
  8. Up to Snuff: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. UP TO SNUFF: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  10. Up to Snuff: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  11. up to snuff: FreeDictionary.org
  12. Snuff, Up to: The Word Detective
  13. Up to snuff: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. Up to snuff: World Wide Words

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. up to snuff: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. up to snuff: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. up to snuff: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (up to snuff)

▸ adjective:  (slang) Adequate; of acceptable quality; satisfying an appropriate standard.
▸ adjective:  (chiefly British, dated, slang) Mentally alert, shrewd, savvy.

Similar:
up to scratch, satisfactory, fine, adequative, adequate, close enough, equal, sufficient, allowable, Jake, more...

Opposite:
subpar, inadequate, unsatisfactory, below standard, deficient

Phrases:
not up to snuff, more...

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Similar:
up to scratch, satisfactory, fine, adequative, adequate, close enough, equal, sufficient, allowable, Jake, more...

Opposite:
subpar, inadequate, unsatisfactory, below standard, deficient

Phrases:
not up to snuff, more...



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