English Explanatory Dictionary

enough

English dictionary entry

Meanings

det
  1. Sufficient; all that is required, needed, or appropriate.
  2. Used before a noun in the manner of words like some, a bit of, and so on.
  3. Used after a noun.
adv
  1. Sufficiently.
  2. Fully; quite; used after adjectives to express slight augmentation of the positive degree, and sometimes equivalent to very.
  3. Used after certain adverbs to emphasise that a quality is notable, unexpected, etc.
pron
  1. A sufficient or adequate number, amount, etc.
intj
  1. Stop! Don't do that any more! It is too much!
noun
  1. An instance of being sufficient, or of doing something sufficiently.

Pronunciation

/ɪˈnʌf/ En-uk-enough.ogg LL-Q1860 (eng)-Back ache-enough.wav /i-/ /ə-/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Naomi Persephone Amethyst (NaomiAmethyst)-enough.wav En-us-enough.ogg /ɪˈnɐf/

Word forms

enough enow anough aneuch eneuch eneugh 'nough enuf enuff enough! enoughs

Etymology

From Middle English ynogh, from Old English ġenōg (“enough”), from Proto-Germanic *ganōgaz (“enough”) (compare Scots eneuch, West Frisian genôch, Dutch genoeg, German genug, Low German (ge)noog, Danish nok, Swedish nog, Icelandic nógur), from *ganuganą 'to suffice' (compare Old English ġeneah), or from *ga- + an unattested *nōgaz, probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eh₂nó(n)ḱe (“he has reached, attained”), perfective of *h₂neḱ- (“to reach”) (compare Old Irish tánaic (“he arrived”), Latin nancisci (“to get”), Albanian kënaq (“to please, satisfy”)).

Synonyms

that's enough enough already no more basta please cut it out knock it off shut up STFU

Derived words

big and ugly enough big enough and ugly enough can't get enough close enough close enough for government work close enough for horseshoes and hand grenades cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey crazy enough to work enough already enough is as good as a feast enough is enough enough is too much enoughly enoughness enough said enough sense to pound sand into a rathole enough to choke a horse enough to choke a snake enough to go around enough to make a cat laugh enough to make the angels weep enough to put in one's eye fair enough getting enough given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow give one enough rope give someone enough rope give someone enough rope and they'll hang themself good enough good enough for government work good enough for jazz good enough to eat have had enough just enough leave well enough alone let well enough alone mad enough to chew nails man enough not enough room to swing a cat not enough to hang a dog on old enough to vote perfect is the enemy of good enough right enough soon enough strong enough to trot a mouse on sure-enough sure enough that's enough throw enough mud at the wall and some of it will stick time enough tongue long enough to cut one's throat too many chiefs and not enough indians way enough woman enough

Translations

Aghwan: 𐕗𐕒𐕡 Albanian: mjaft Arabic: كَافٍ Arabic: كفاية Armenian: բավականաչափ Armenian: բավական Azerbaijani: yetərli Basque: aski Basque: nahiko Belarusian: дастатко́ва Belarusian: даво́лі Bengali: যথেষ্ট Bulgarian: достатъчно Bulgarian: дово́лно Burmese: လောက် Burmese: တော် Catalan: prou Catalan: suficient Chinese Mandarin: 夠 /够 Chinese Mandarin: 足夠 /足够 Chinese Mandarin: 充足 Chinese Mandarin: 足 Czech: dost Danish: nok Dutch: genoeg Dutch: voldoende Esperanto: sufiĉa Estonian: piisavalt Ewe: nyo Finnish: tarpeeksi Finnish: riittävästi Finnish: kylliksi Finnish: kyllin French: assez West-Frisian: genôch Galician: bastante Galician: abondo Georgian: საკმარისი Georgian: საკმაო German: genug Greek: αρκετός Ancient Greek: ἱκανός Ancient Greek: ἀρκετός Gujarati: પૂરતું Hebrew: מספיק Hebrew: די Hindi: पर्याप्त Hindi: काफ़ी Hungarian: elég Hungarian: elegendő Icelandic: nógur Ingrian: kylläst Ingrian: ohto Irish: dóthain Italian: abbastanza Japanese: 十分 Japanese: 充分 Japanese: 足りる Kazakh: жеткілікті Khmer: គ្រប់គ្រាន់ Korean: 충분히 Northern Kurdish: besanî Lao: ພຽງພໍ Lao: ພໍ
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