Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Sufficient to meet a need or satisfy a desire; adequate: synonym: sufficient.
- pronoun An adequate number or quantity.
- adverb To a satisfactory amount or degree; sufficiently.
- adverb Very; fully; quite.
- adverb Tolerably; rather.
- interjection Used to express impatience or exasperation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- An elliptical exclamation, signifying ‘it (or that) is enough,’ ‘I have had enough,’ ‘you have done enough,’ etc.
- Answering the purpose; adequate to want or demand; sufficient; satisfying desire; giving content; meeting reasonable expectation.
- Synonyms Sufficient, Competent, etc. See
adequate . - noun A quantity of a thing or act, or a number of things or persons, sufficient to satisfy desire or want, or adequate to a purpose; sufficiency: as, we have enough of this sort of cloth.
- noun Synonyms Plenty, abundance.
- In a quantity or degree that answers the purpose, satisfies, or is equal to the desires or wants; to a sufficient degree; sufficiently.
- To a notable extent; fairly; rather: used to denote a slight augmentation of the positive degree, the force depending upon the connection or the emphasis: as, he is ready enough to embrace the offer.
- In a tolerable or passable degree: used to denote diminution, or a degree or quality rather less than is desired, or such a quantity or degree as commands acquiescence rather than full satisfaction: as, the performance is well enough.
- To a great degree; very much.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- interjection An exclamation denoting sufficiency, being a shortened form of
it is enough . - adjective Satisfying desire; giving content; adequate to meet the want; sufficient; -- usually, and more elegantly, following the noun to which it belongs.
- adverb In a degree or quantity that satisfies; to satisfaction; sufficiently.
- adverb Fully; quite; -- used to express slight augmentation of the positive degree, and sometimes equivalent to
very . - adverb In a tolerable degree; -- used to express mere acceptableness or acquiescence, and implying a degree or quantity rather less than is desired.
- noun A sufficiency; a quantity which satisfies desire, is adequate to the want, or is equal to the power or ability.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- determiner
sufficient ; all that isrequired ,needed , orappropriate - adverb
sufficiently - pronoun A sufficient or adequate number, amount, etc.
- interjection
stop ! Don't do that anymore, etc.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb as much as necessary
- adjective sufficient for the purpose
- noun an adequate quantity; a quantity that is large enough to achieve a purpose
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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\ "The marchers were chanting \" enough, enough\ "and \" We the People.
Marshall Auerback: Why Government Spending Is the Solution, Not the Problem
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\ "The marchers were chanting \" enough, enough\ "and \" We the People.
Marshall Auerback: Why Government Spending Is the Solution, Not the Problem
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Not chocolatey enough if I am craving chocolate, and not *enough* if I want a crispy snack.
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True, one cold war was enough ... however that doesn\'t mean irrespective of the actions taken by Bush-administration, the world would never say \'One Bush-administration was (is) enough\ '.'
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It is evident enough that all questions between North and South must settle themselves, should the war only _go far enough_.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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Well, little Clara kissed my hand when she had eaten enough -- (it was so odd for _Clara_ to have _enough_) -- and her sunken eyes grew bright, and she said -- "Now I shall not be beaten, because I've something left to carry home;" so she told me where she lived, and I bade her good bye, and told her I would come and see her mother to-morrow.
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And the Master's answer would come in that clear, quiet voice of His, "yes, tarry: you have knowledge enough, but _knowledge is not enough_, there must be power."
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He confessed to Lord William that the world was not big enough for him, that there was no king or country big enough; and then he added, hitting him on the shoulder, Yes, that is flesh, that is what I hate, and what makes me wish to die.
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And that is why our scriptures and other art-works, when they deal with love, turn from honest attempts at science in physics to romantic nonsense, erotic ecstasy, or the stern asceticism of satiety (the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom said William Blake; for you never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough).
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Time enough, always proves little enough_: Let us then up and be doing, and doing to the Purpose; so by Diligence shall we do more with less Perplexity.
dibau_naum_h commented on the word enough
"But this is not enough" (Tolke eta va mala) (Arseniy Tarkovsky)
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"I had enough" (Ich habe genug) (Johann Sebastian bach)
January 7, 2007
dontcry commented on the word enough
"Enough is equal to a feast." - Henry Fielding, The Covent Garden Tragedy
January 4, 2009
Zoamber commented on the word enough
enough love this word so much I had it tattooed on my wrist!
July 17, 2015
vendingmachine commented on the word enough
Wordnik allows you to adopt words you love. Why not adopt "enough"?
July 17, 2015
bilby commented on the word enough
Nice suggestion vm, but I just can't seem to get enough.
July 18, 2015