Enough

/ɪˈnʌf/ · determiner

Meaning

Sufficient; all that is required, needed, or appropriate..

Definitions by Sense

1. Sufficient; all that is required, needed, or appropriate.
2. Sufficiently.
3. Fully; quite; used after adjectives to express slight augmentation of the positive degree, and sometimes equivalent to very.
4. Used after certain adverbs to emphasise that a quality is notable, unexpected, etc.
5. A sufficient or adequate number, amount, etc.
6. Stop! Don't do that any more! It is too much!
7. (rare, chiefly in the plural) An instance of being sufficient, or of doing something sufficiently.

Example Sentences

Those pears aren't ripe enough for the children to eat (them).

You've worked enough; rest for a bit.

We don't have long enough nails.

Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.

The preposterous altruism too![…]Resist not evil. It is an insane immolation of self—as bad intrinsically as fakirs stabbing themselves or anchorites warping their spines in caves scarcely large enough for a fair-sized dog.

‘No,’ said Luke, grinning at her. ‘You're not dull enough! […] What about the kid's clothes? I don't suppose they were anything to write home about, but didn't you keep anything? A bootee or a bit of embroidery or anything at all?’

He is ready enough to accept the offer.

I know you well enough; you are Signior Antonio.

Synonyms for enough

Antonyms for enough

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Word Forms

• enow
• anough
• aneuch
• eneuch
• eneugh
• 'nough
• enuf
• enuff
• enough!
• enoughs

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