enough — English Dictionary

Determiner

1. Sufficient; all that is required, needed, or appropriate. Used before a noun in the manner of words like some, a bit of, and so on.

   Examples

   We have enough food.

   I've already had enough coffee today.

2. Sufficient; all that is required, needed, or appropriate. Used after a noun.

   Usage

   • Archaic

   Examples

   There is food enough for us all.

   How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare!

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   But it wasn’t ransom enough. His captors accepted it all, But didn’t let go of the king.

Adverb

1. Sufficiently.

   Examples

   The room is warm enough.

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

   You've worked enough; rest for a bit.

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   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?’

2. Fully; quite; used after adjectives to express slight augmentation of the positive degree, and sometimes equivalent to very.

   Examples

   He is ready enough to accept the offer.

   I know you well enough; you are Signior Antonio.

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   “[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”

3. Used after certain adverbs to emphasise that a quality is notable, unexpected, etc.

   Examples

   Talking of Mr Smith, funnily enough, I saw him just the other day.

   I left my camera on the train, but luckily enough someone handed it in to lost property.

Pronoun

1. A sufficient or adequate number, amount, etc.

   Examples

   Take enough for everyone.

   I have enough (of it) to keep me going.

   Enough of you are here to begin the class.

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   Get some more plates. There aren’t enough yet.

   Not enough is known yet about the causes of the pandemic.

   I explained enough for her to understand the issue: there wasn't enough of an economic surplus.

Interjection

1. Stop! Don't do that any more! It is too much!

   Synonyms

   that's enoughenough alreadyno morebastapleasecut it outknock it offshut upSTFU

   Examples

   Enough! Please stop arguing.

   Near-synonyms: please, cut it out, knock it off, shut up, STFU

   I'm sick of you complaining! Enough!

Noun

1. An instance of being sufficient, or of doing something sufficiently.

   Usage

   • in-plural
   • Rare

   Examples

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   And she was neither beautiful nor handsome, but just at the point halfway between which a girl of twenty-three reaches who inherits good features and healthful figure, and who has learned to dance well, ride well, study enough, golf enough, and has attained the thousand other "well and enoughs" which include talking well and listening enough, and allow a woman to be liked and loved with so little consciousness that she never suspects she is particularly liked at all.

Adjective

1. sufficient for the purpose

   Synonyms

   adequate

   Examples

   an adequate income

   the food was adequate

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   enough food

   food enough

Noun

1. an adequate quantity; a quantity that is large enough to achieve a purpose

   Synonyms

   sufficiency

   Broader terms

   relative quantity

   Examples

   enough is as good as a feast

   there is more than a sufficiency of lawyers in this country

Adverb

1. as much as necessary

   Synonyms

   plenty

   Examples

   have I eaten enough?

   I've had plenty, thanks (‘plenty’ is nonstandard)