enough
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈnʌf/
ipa: /ɪˈnʌf/
ipa: /i-/
ipa: /ə-/
rhymes: -ʌf
Forms: form: enoughs
form: enow
form: anough
form: aneuch
form: eneuch
form: eneugh
form: 'nough
form: enuff
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”).).
Senses: examples: text: And she was neither beautiful nor handsome, but just at the point halfway between which a girl of twenty-three reaches who inherits good features and healthful figure, and who has learned to dance well, ride well, study enough, golf enough, and has attained the thousand other "well and enoughs" which include talking well and listening enough, and allow a woman to be liked and loved with so little consciousness that she never suspects she is particularly liked at all.
ref: 1909, Edwin Balmer, Waylaid by Wireless: A Suspicion, a Warning, a Sporting Proposition, and a Transatlantic Pursuit, page 29:
glosses: An instance of being sufficient, or of doing something sufficiently.
Derived terms: sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: big and ugly enough
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: big enough and ugly enough
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: can't get enough
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: close enough
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: close enough for government work
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: close enough for horseshoes and hand grenades
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: enough already
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: enough is as good as a feast
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: enough is enough
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: enough is too much
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: enoughly
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: enoughness
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: enough said
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: enough sense to pound sand into a rathole
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: enough to choke a horse
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: enough to go around
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: enough to make a cat laugh
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: enough to make the angels weep
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: enough to put in one's eye
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: fair enough
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: getting enough
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: give one enough rope
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: give someone enough rope
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: give someone enough rope and they'll hang themself
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: good enough
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: good enough for government work
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: good enough for jazz
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: good enough to eat
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: have had enough
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: just enough
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: leave well enough alone
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: let well enough alone
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: mad enough to chew nails
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: man enough
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: not enough room to swing a cat
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: not enough to hang a dog on
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: old enough to vote
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: perfect is the enemy of good enough
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: right enough
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: soon enough
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: strong enough to trot a mouse on
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: sure-enough
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: sure enough
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: that's enough
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: throw enough mud at the wall and some of it will stick
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: time enough
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: too many chiefs and not enough indians
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: too many chiefs and not enough Indians
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: way enough
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: woman enough