dictionary definitions for "enough"


From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:

  enough
      adj : enough to meet a purpose; "an adequate income"; "the food
            was adequate"; "a decent wage"; "enough food"; "food
            enough" [syn: adequate, decent]
      n : an adequate quantity; a quantity that is large enough to
          achieve a purpose; "enough is as good as a feast"; "there
          is more than a sufficiency of lawyers in this country"
          [syn: sufficiency]
      adv : as much as necessary; "Have I eaten enough?"; (`plenty' is
            nonstandard) "I've had plenty, thanks" [syn: plenty]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Enough \E*nough"\, adv.
     1. In a degree or quantity that satisfies; to satisfaction;
        sufficiently.
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     2. Fully; quite; -- used to express slight augmentation of
        the positive degree, and sometimes equivalent to very; as,
        he is ready enough to embrace the offer.
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              I know you well enough; you are Signior Antonio.
                                                    --Shak.
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              Thou knowest well enough . . . that this is no time
              to lend money.                        --Shak.
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     3. In a tolerable degree; -- used to express mere
        acceptableness or acquiescence, and implying a degree or
        quantity rather less than is desired; as, the song was
        well enough.
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     Note: Enough usually follows the word it modifies.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Enough \E*nough"\ ([-e]*n[u^]f"), a. [OE. inoh, inow, enogh, AS.
     gen[=o]h, gen[=o]g, a. & adv. (akin to OS. gin[=o]g, D.
     genoeg, OHG. ginoug, G. genug, Icel. gn[=o]gr, Sw. nog, Dan.
     nok, Goth. gan[=o]hs), fr. geneah it suffices (akin to Goth.
     ganah); pref. ge- + a root akin to L. nancisci to get, Skr.
     na[,c], Gr. 'enegkei^n to carry.]
     Satisfying desire; giving content; adequate to meet the want;
     sufficient; -- usually, and more elegantly, following the
     noun to which it belongs.
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           How many hired servants of my father's have bread
           enough and to spare!                     --Luke xv. 17.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Enough \E*nough"\, n.
     A sufficiency; a quantity which satisfies desire, is adequate
     to the want, or is equal to the power or ability; as, he had
     enough to do take care of himself. "Enough is as good as a
     feast."
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           And Esau said, I have enough, my brother. --Gen.
                                                    xxxiii. 9.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  enough \e*nough"\, interj.
     An exclamation denoting sufficiency, being a shortened form
     of it is enough.
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