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  1. adjective Sufficient to meet a need or satisfy a desire; adequate: enough work to keep us all busy. See Synonyms at sufficient.
  2. pronoun An adequate number or quantity: "The Gods above should give,/They have enough and we do poorly live” (Henry David Thoreau).
  3. adverb To a satisfactory amount or degree; sufficiently: Is the fish cooked enough?
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  • I have suffered enough--enough Mr. Van Ostend, pardon me the seeming discourtesy in your own house, but I am compelled to mention it. —  Flamsted quarries
  • She probably considered it of some value-- enough, at any rate, to pawn for drink; and Billy's violent refusal to give it up only roused her the more to secure it It was a revolting spectacle to watch, this struggle between mother and child. —  My Friend Smith A Story of School and City Life
  • Anybody can win, if they have men enough or strength enough and money enough--we were talking about fighting, sir But really, you know," went on Beauchamp, recovering, and returning to the charge, "Washington's army haven't fought since those days you speak of, and they must be wiped out of existence by now, I should suppose Not if George Washington is still alive," interrupted the colonel, his anger at the inconsiderate officer having somewhat abated. —  For Love of Country A Story of Land and Sea in the Days of the Revolution
  • It wants men who can work and wait That is done soon enough which is done well. —  How to Succeed or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune
  • But last May day there was enough and to spare--enough, at all events, to last until the Virginian and I gave up, at high noon of May 3. —  Europe After 8:15
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  1. Middle English enogh, from Old English genōg; see nek-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also inough, etc., and enow, dial. enow, enoo (also enuf, enif, a spelling recognized even in late Middle English enoffe) = Scots eneuch, eneugh; from Middle English enogh, enoh, enow, enou, also with prefix spelled i-, y-, a-, inough, inogh, inouh, inoh, inow, inou, etc., ynough, etc., anough, etc., plural ending in -e, enoghe, enowe, etc., earliest Middle English genoh, from Anglo-Saxon genōh, plural genōge = Old Saxon ginōg, ginuog = OFries. enōch, anog, noch = Dutch genoeg = Low German genaug, enaug, naug = Old High German ginuog, ginuoc, Middle High German genuoc, also Old High German ginōgī, Middle High German ginuege, German genug, sometimes gnug, genung = Icelandic gnōgr = Swedish nog = Danish nok = Gothic (Moesogothic) ganōhs, enough, sufficient, abundant, in plural many (cf. Gothic (Moesogothic) ganauha, sufficiency, Anglo-Saxon genyht = Old High German ginuht, German genüge, sufficiency); from Anglo-Saxon geneah = Old High German ginah = Gothic (Moesogothic) ganah (Gothic (Moesogothic) also binah, with past participle binauhts), it suffices, an impersonal preterit present verb; from ga-, ge-, generalizing prefix, + Teutonic √ *noh = Sanskrit √ naç, attain, reach to, = Latin nancisci (√ *nac), acquire, = Greek η῎νεγκα (√ *νεκ), irreg. 2d aorist of φέρειν, bear.
  2. Early modern English also inough, etc., and enew, etc.; from Middle English enogh, etc. (like the adjective), from Anglo-Saxon genōh (= Old Saxon ginog, ginuog = OFries. enōch, etc., = Dutch genoeg = Low German genaug, enaug, naug = Old High German Middle High German ginuog, German genug, etc.), adverb, neuter accusative of adjective
 

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