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e⋅nough

  [i-nuhf]
Use enough in a Sentence
–adjective
1. adequate for the want or need; sufficient for the purpose or to satisfy desire: enough water; noise enough to wake the dead.
–pronoun
2. an adequate quantity or number; sufficiency.
–adverb
3. in a quantity or degree that answers a purpose or satisfies a need or desire; sufficiently.
4. fully or quite: ready enough.
–interjection
5. (used to express impatience or exasperation): Enough! I heard you the first time.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME enogh, OE genōh; c. G genug, Goth ganohs, ON nōgr; akin to OE geneah it suffices, Skt naśati (he) reaches

Synonyms:
1. ample. 3. adequately, amply, reasonably.
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e·nough   (ĭ-nŭf')   
adj.  Sufficient to meet a need or satisfy a desire; adequate: enough work to keep us all busy. See Synonyms at sufficient.
pron.  An adequate number or quantity: "The Gods above should give,/They have enough and we do poorly live" (Henry David Thoreau).
adv.  
  1. To a satisfactory amount or degree; sufficiently: Is the fish cooked enough?
  2. Very; fully; quite: We were glad enough to leave.
  3. Tolerably; rather: She sang well enough, but the show was a failure.
interj.  Used to express impatience or exasperation: You've been practicing the guitar all afternoon. Enough!

[Middle English enogh, from Old English genōg; see nek-2 in Indo-European roots.]
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Enough

E*nough"\, a. [OE. inoh, inow, enogh, AS. gen?h, gen?g, a. & adv. (akin to OS. gin?g, D. genoeg, OHG. ginoug, G. genug, Icel. gn?gr, Sw. nog, Dan. nok, Goth. gan?hs), fr. geneah it suffices (akin to Goth. ganah); pref. ge- + a root akin to L. nancisci to get, Skr. na?, Gr. ? to carry.] Satisfying desire; giving content; adequate to meet the want; sufficient; -- usually, and more elegantly, following the noun to which it belongs.

How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare! --Luke xv. 17.

Enough

E*nough"\, adv. 1. In a degree or quantity that satisfies; to satisfaction; sufficiently.

2. Fully; quite; -- used to express slight augmentation of the positive degree, and sometimes equivalent to very; as, he is ready enough to embrace the offer.

I know you well enough; you are Signior Antonio. --Shak.

Thou knowest well enough . . . that this is no time to lend money. --Shak.

3. In a tolerable degree; -- used to express mere acceptableness or acquiescence, and implying a degree or quantity rather less than is desired; as, the song was well enough.

Note: Enough usually follows the word it modifies.

Enough

E*nough"\, n. A sufficiency; a quantity which satisfies desire, is adequate to the want, or is equal to the power or ability; as, he had enough to do take care of himself. "Enough is as good as a feast."

And Esau said, I have enough, my brother. --Gen. xxxiii. 9.

Enough

E*nough"\, interj. An exclamation denoting sufficiency, being a shortened form of it is enough.
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Language Translation for : enough
Spanish: bastante, suficiente,
German: genug,
Japanese: 十分な
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enough 
O.E. genog, a common Gmc. formation (cf. O.N. gnogr, O.Fris. enoch, Goth. ganohs, Ger. genug), from ge- "with, together" (also a participial, collective, intensive, or perfective prefix) + root -nah, from PIE *nak- "reach, attain" (cf. Skt. asnoti "reaches," Hittite ninikzi "lifts, raises," Lith. nesti "to bear, carry," L. nancisci "to obtain"). The most prominent among the surviving examples of O.E. ge-, the equivalent of L. com- and Mod.Ger. ge-, from PIE *kom- "beside, near, by, with." Understated sense of have had enough "have had too much" was in O.E. (which relied heavily on double negatives and understatement). Colloquial 'nough said is attested from 1839. Archaic enow is from the O.E. pl. adj. and was standard as the plural of enough until late 18c.
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enough

In addition to the idioms beginning with enough, also see fair enough; had enough; leave well enough alone; not enough room to swing a cat; sure enough; (enough) to wake the dead.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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