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Enough vs Suffices - What's the difference?

enough | suffices |

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 verb suffices is

third-person singular of suffice.

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 !

    suffices

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (suffice)

  • suffice

    English

    Verb

    (suffic)
  • To be enough or sufficient; to meet the need (of anything); to be equal to the end proposed; to be adequate.
  • Two capsules of fish oil a day suffices .
  • * Milton
  • To recount almighty works, / What words or tongue of seraph can suffice ?
  • To satisfy; to content; to be equal to the wants or demands of.
  • A joint of lamb sufficed even his enormous appetite.
  • * 1838 , The Church of England quarterly review (page 203)
  • Lord Brougham's salary would have sufficed more than ninety Prussian judges.
  • To furnish; to supply adequately.
  • Usage notes

    * Commonly used in the phrase suffice it to say. * Mostly used in modal verb constructions, such as: Half a loaf per day will suffice'''.'' This is much more common than the direct form ''Half a loaf per day '''suffices .