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enough

[ih-nuhf]

Origin

adjective

adequate for the want or need; sufficient for the purpose or to satisfy desire: enough water; noise enough to wake the dead.

pronoun

an adequate quantity or number; sufficiency.

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adverb

in a quantity or degree that answers a purpose or satisfies a need or desire; sufficiently.

fully or quite: ready enough.

interjection

(used to express impatience or exasperation): Enough! I heard you the first time.

Origin:
before 900; Middle English enogh, Old English genōh; cognate with German genug, Gothic ganohs, Old Norse nōgr; akin to Old English geneah it suffices, Sanskrit naśati (he) reaches

Synonyms
1. ample. 3. adequately, amply, reasonably.

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enough (ɪˈnʌf)

—*determiner*
1.	a. sufficient to answer a need, demand, supposition, or requirement; adequate: enough cake
	b. (as pronoun): enough is now known
2.	that's enough! that will do: used to put an end to an action, speech, performance, etc

—*adv*
3.	so as to be adequate or sufficient; as much as necessary: you have worked hard enough
4.	(not used with a negative) very or quite; rather: she was pleased enough to see me
5.	(intensifier): oddly enough; surprisingly enough
6.	just adequately; tolerably: he did it well enough

[Old English genōh; related to Old Norse gnōgr, Gothic ganōhs, Old High German ginuog]

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Word Origin & History

enough

O.E. genog, a common Germanic 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.

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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.

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Idioms & Phrases

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.