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enough | enoughness |

As a determiner enough

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

As an adverb enough

is sufficiently.

As a pronoun enough

is a sufficient or adequate number, amount, etc.

As an interjection enough

is stop! don't do that anymore, etc.

As a noun enoughness is

the state or condition of being enough; sufficiency; adequacy.

enough

English

Alternative forms

* (l) * (l) (obsolete) * (l), (l), (l) (Scotland)

Determiner

(en determiner)
  • Sufficient; all that is required, needed, or appropriate.
  • * Bible, (Gospel of Luke) xv. 17
    • How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare!
  • * , chapter=16
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=The preposterous altruism too!
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=15 citation , passage=‘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?’}}

    Adverb

    (head)
  • Sufficiently.
  • :
  • *, chapter=5
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=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.}}
  • Fully; quite; used to express slight augmentation of the positive degree, and sometimes equivalent to very .
  • :
  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:I know you well enough ; you are Signior Antonio.
  • *
  • *:“[…] 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.”

    • Usage notes

    * As an adverb, enough always follows the verb it qualifies.

    Pronoun

    (English Pronouns)
  • A sufficient or adequate number, amount, etc.
    • I have enough to keep me going .

    Interjection

  • stop! Don't do that anymore, etc.
    • Enough !

    Statistics

    * English words prefixed with y- 1000 English basic words

    enoughness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The state or condition of being enough; sufficiency; adequacy.
  • *2002 , Ira Chernus, Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace :
    • Secretary of State Dulles pointed out that the report's aim was not "scaring our people but giving them a realistic picture of the dilemma in which they would find themselves" when the Soviet Union as well as the United States had attained "enoughness ."
  • * 2003 , Marcia Menter, The office sutras: exercises for your soul at work (page 34)
    • But all of us have deep beliefs about our own enoughness , often stemming from childhood...
  • *2008 , Herman Cappelen, Ernest Lepore, Insensitive Semantics :
    • We have tried to convince you that the problem, worry, or puzzle that arises in connection with readiness or enoughness , if there is one, is metaphysical, and not semantic; [...]
  • *2008 , Anable Shilson Thomas, Live simply :
    • The fourth and last principle is that of the Sabbath - the feast of enoughness .

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