1. Word finder
  2. Word definitions
  3. enough

Find the word definition

What is "enough"

Crossword clues for enough

enough
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
enough
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
appropriately enough (=used to emphasize that something is very appropriate)
▪ The painters met, appropriately enough, in an art gallery .
barely enough
▪ Mary had barely enough money to live on.
be lucky enough to do sth (=have the good luck to do sth)
▪ I was lucky enough to be selected for the school team.
be old enough to do sth
▪ You’re old enough to help with the cooking.
easily enough
▪ We found the house easily enough.
enough/sufficient courage
▪ Harry plucked up enough courage to ask her out.
enough/sufficient detail
▪ The party was criticized for not giving sufficient detail about their proposed tax changes.
fortunate enough
▪ I was fortunate enough to obtain a research studentship at Stanford.
go far enough (=did not have a big enough effect, so that more needed to be done)
▪ Many people felt that the new law did not go far enough.
good enough
▪ His qualifications aren’t good enough.
got enough to worry about (=she already has a lot of problems or is very busy)
▪ Don’t tell Mum about this – she’s got enough to worry about.
have enough/plenty etc to eat
▪ Have you had enough to eat?
Interestingly enough
▪ Interestingly enough, Pearson made no attempt to deny the rumour.
just enough (=enough but not more than enough)
▪ She was earning just enough money to live on .
leave well (enough) alone (=not change something that is satisfactory)
▪ In economic matters, they should leave well alone.
long enough
▪ The cable is not quite long enough.
man enough (=strong or brave enough)
▪ He wasn’t man enough to face up to his responsibilities.
mature enough
▪ We’re mature enough to disagree on this issue but still respect each other.
Naturally enough
▪ Naturally enough, she wanted her child to grow up fit and strong.
near enough
▪ His story was near enough the truth for people to believe it.
not nearly enough
▪ We’ve saved some money, but it’s not nearly enough.
nothing like enough
▪ This will be nothing like enough money.
often enough (=a lot of times)
▪ Robin is a difficult child; you’ve said so yourself often enough.
quite enough
▪ I think you’ve had quite enough to drink already!
reasonable enough (=fairly reasonable)
▪ It was a reasonable enough question.
sb is old enough to be sb’s mother/father (=used when you think that someone is much too old to be having a relationship with another person )
▪ Why would she want to go out with someone who was old enough to be her father?
sb is old enough to know better (=used when you think someone should behave more sensibly)
▪ He’s old enough to know better, but he went and did it anyway!
soon enough (=fairly soon)
▪ ‘Who?’ ‘You’ll find out soon enough.’
Strangely enough
▪ Strangely enough, I wasn’t that disappointed.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
as like as not/like enough
enough/plenty to go around
▪ Plenty enough to go around for any city.
▪ There are community therapists, but not enough to go around.
fair enough
▪ "I'll trade you my tennis racket for your skates." "Okay, fair enough."
▪ And the price you paid seems to be fair enough - even taking the bad news into account.
▪ But, you know, that's fair enough.
▪ Cuntonas rating is also fair enough.
▪ However, it seemed fair enough to start the climb in the hope of an improvement.
▪ If it's in your blood, your ancestry, then I think that is fair enough.
▪ Its results can be fair enough.
▪ This is fair enough, but do check before you buy.
▪ Which was fair enough comment at the time.
funnily enough
▪ But an architect friend offered me premises in Portland Mews, funnily enough just around the corner from our new gallery.
▪ Harriet had gone straight into property after her A's and left home, funnily enough, before she did.
▪ Many like steel, glass and paper can be re-used, and funnily enough it is cheaper the second time around.
▪ Rory went back to live in London that winter, and ended up - funnily enough - living in a squat.
give sb enough rope to hang themselves
give sb some/enough etc rope
▪ You gave me enough rope for eighteen months, and now ... He gripped the back of the chair in front of him.
have a lot/enough on your plate
▪ Beckham may have enough on his plate attempting to recapture his early-season form without being burdened with any extra responsibilities.
it's bad enough ...
▪ It's bad enough being paranoid, let alone telling everyone about it.
▪ It's bad enough being stuck in here without our not getting on as well.
▪ It's bad enough for me, imagine living abroad.
▪ It's bad enough having a seriously ill child without all having to be split up.
▪ It's bad enough looking through the new sections and the main articles and seeing nothing mentioned less than E4, 6b.
▪ It's bad enough now, but it must have been really something when it was occupied.
▪ It's bad enough that Timothy's mooning over her like a schoolboy, wet behind the ears.
▪ It's bad enough trying to fly with unequal line lengths; having an asymmetric kite can be most frustrating!
near enough
▪ At noon they saw it; then they were near enough to hear it.
▪ Filmer had been sitting with his back to me, it was true, but near enough to overhear.
▪ He is near enough to hear them calling, the words bounced and steered and elongated by the contours of the land.
▪ Jones and Brewer have had a long series of injuries, but both are near enough to fitness and form.
▪ No one was near enough to accost her or wonder about her presence.
▪ The Trojans were almost near enough to set the ships on fire.
▪ When he saw me, he leaned on his shovel until I was near enough to shake hands.
once is/was enough
plenty big/fast/warm etc enough
screw up the/enough courage to do sth
▪ But Janice's fear was so great she struggled through two more migraines before screwing up enough courage to try the injection.
▪ I eventually screwed up the courage to write to Richardson, pretending to be a drama student wanting advice.
sure enough
▪ Sure enough, Mike managed to get lost.
▪ And sure enough, the signatures did look personalized.
▪ And sure enough, there it was once more, evidence of how smart they were.
▪ And sure enough, there was Thomas in the reading corner, soundlessly turning blue and clutching at his throat.
▪ But, sure enough, when Swansea's money ran out, so did the players.
▪ There, sure enough, was a neatly shod foot, and a hand just visible close to it.
▪ This also predates the advent of the 486 and, sure enough, it gets the identity wrong too.
▪ Well, sure enough, it turns out that Terra Nova is really only pseudo-new.
▪ When X-rays were taken there sure enough was a needle.
that's/it's not good enough
▪ Voice over John and Vicki Strong say that's not good enough.
there's not enough room to swing a cat
too many chiefs and not enough Indians
would you be good enough to do sth?
▪ Would you be good enough to get my glasses for me?
▪ Would you be good enough to re-advise me of your full address so that I can send the documents to you?
would you be kind enough to do sth/be so kind as to do sth
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ It's getting late, and you two have talked enough for one day.
▪ Raphael is probably the only one crazy enough to try it.
▪ She's nice enough when I see her, but I don't think she really likes me.
▪ The pole was just long enough to reach the top window.
▪ The sled is big enough for three children to ride on it safely.
▪ Will that box be strong enough?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Bob worked the crank machine, to get the dough thin enough.
▪ I have failed to heal him with my compliance; all my efforts have not been good enough.
▪ Might it prove wide enough to sink Bob Dole too?
▪ Now, off you go, you have kept him waiting long enough.
▪ On the third day, I am strong enough to wash and do my laundry.
▪ The gain will be large enough, however, to hold the unemployment rate steady at 5. 6 percent.
▪ When the rested section was robust enough, it would be re-opened and another section closed, and so on.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
enough

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

Related phrases:
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
enough

c.1300, from Old English genog "sufficient in quantity or number," from Proto-Germanic compound *ganoga- "sufficient" (cognates: Old Saxon ginog, Old Frisian enoch, Dutch genoeg, Old High German ginuog, German genug, Old Norse gnogr, Gothic ganohs).\n

\nFirst element is Old English ge- "with, together" (also a participial, collective, intensive, or perfective prefix), making this word the most prominent surviving example of the Old English prefix, the equivalent of Latin com- and Modern German ge- (from PIE *kom- "beside, near, by, with;" see com-). Second element is from PIE *nok-, from root *nek- (2) "to reach, attain" (cognates: Sanskrit asnoti "reaches," Hittite ninikzi "lifts, raises," Lithuanian nešti "to bear, carry," Latin nancisci "to obtain"). \n

\nAs an adverb, "sufficiently for the purpose," in Old English; meaning "moderately, fairly, tolerably" (good enough) was in Middle English. Understated sense, as in have had enough "have had too much" was in Old English (which relied heavily on double negatives and understatement). As a noun in Old English, "a quantity or number sufficient for the purpose." As an interjection, "that is enough," from c.1600. Colloquial 'nough said is attested from 1839.

Wiktionary
enough

adv. sufficiently. det. sufficient; all that is required, needed, or appropriate. interj. stop! Don't do that anymore, etc. pron. A sufficient or adequate number, amount, etc.

Related phrases:
WordNet
enough

  1. adj. enough to meet a purpose; "an adequate income"; "the food was adequate"; "a decent wage"; "enough food"; "food enough" [syn: adequate, decent]

  2. 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]

  3. adv. as much as necessary; "Have I eaten enough?"; (`plenty' is nonstandard) "I've had plenty, thanks" [syn: plenty]

Related phrases:
Wikipedia
Enough (film)

Enough is a 2002 American thriller film directed by Michael Apted. The movie is based on the 1998 novel Black and Blue, by Anna Quindlen, which was a New York Times bestseller. It stars Jennifer Lopez as Slim, an abused wife who learns to fight back. Enough garnered generally negative reviews from film critics, although several aspects of the film including the actors' performances were praised.

Enough

Enough may refer to:

Enough (song)

"Enough" is the third and final single by Finnish vocalist Tarja Turunen from her debut album My Winter Storm, composed by Tarja and Michelle Leonard.

The single was released on March 9, 2009 by Universal Music as a digital download exclusive to the United Kingdom. The track is also available on the Fan Edition of My Winter Storm.

The single includes a new song (also available on the My Winter Storm Fan Edition) called "Wisdom of Wind". The song was composed by Jeff Rona and Lisa Gerrard, and recorded in China. It includes the participation of the Beijing Philharmonic and Qingdao Symphony orchestras.

"Enough" did not chart due to lack of promotion.

Related phrases:

Usage examples of "enough".

He had learned her opinions on the subject of Aberrancy over the weeks they had spent together, and while he did not agree with much of what she said, it had enough validity to make him think.

Mishani would never have believed it possible - not only that Lucia had been allowed to reach eight harvests of age in the first place, but also that the Empress was foolish enough to think the high families would allow an Aberrant to rule Saramyr.

The Empress might have enough support among the nobles to keep a precarious hold on her throne, but she had made no overtures to the common folk, and they were solidly opposed to the idea of an Aberrant ruler.

CHAPTER 12 Winter Amidst of the Mountains In all this they had enough to be busy with, so that time hung not heavy on their hands, and the shadow of the Quest was nowise burdensome to them, since they wotted that they had to abide the wearing of the days till spring was come with fresh tidings.

Now Ralph, he and his, being known for friends, these wild men could not make enough of them, and as it were, compelled them to abide there three days, feasting them, and making them all the cheer they might.

The very sight of the awesome Forest aborigines, with their fanged muzzles agape and their taloned hands hovering near their weapons, was enough to convert the dance-bone cheaters to instant integrity.

She knew she could not scale a blank seven-foot wall fast enough to save herself, especially not with one stingingly abraded hand, so she studied the trees as she ran.

The three of us went first to check on the pool, and found it gratifying abrim with repulsive brown water, wide and deep enough to have submerged our truck.

That was a minor vessel, readily expendable, though formidable enough, a hundred-meter spheroid abristle with guns, missile launchers, energy projectors.

It would be awfully difficult for Gore to catch up to Bush before December 12unless a court disqualified enough Bush overseas absentee votes.

The Republicans had made a good showing in 1972, aided by the Nixon landslide, and they felt that if they could get enough absentee ballots thrown out, they might reverse the results of the local elections.

These trials were made with cut offleaves, and it occurred to me that this circumstance might influence the result, as the footstalks would not perhaps absorb water quickly enough to supply the glands as they continued to secrete.

The abutments also must be strong enough to take safely the thrust of the weighted arch, as the slightest movement in these supports will cause deflection and failure.

Men and women bright enough to run a particle accelerator the size of a small planet likewise had to be at least somewhat aware that they were being manipulated, even as they let it happen.

I found my conduct excusable, as the chances were a hundred to one against her accepting the proposal I had been foolish enough to make.