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adverb

Enough adv.

In a degree or quantity that satisfies; to satisfaction; sufficiently.

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

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.

adjective

Enough adj. 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!"

noun

Enough 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."

interjection

enough interj. An exclamation denoting sufficiency, being a shortened form of it is enough.

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... himself back in the carriage, as if he were about to faint, and to inundate himself with scents and perfumes, uttering the deepest sighs all the while; whereupon Madame said to him, with her most amiable expression: "Really, monsieur, I fancied that you would have been polite enough, on account of the terrible heat, to have left me my carriage to myself, and to have performed the journey ...

— The Vicomte de Bragelonne - Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three - Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" • Alexandre Dumas

... idea: that outside, somewhere, was his kid growing up into a fine young person—never guessing it had such a father—and Joe never intending to see it again and not being able to know it if he ever should see it. I tell you, after learning Joe's story, it made me feel that I'd had enough of the ...

— Children of the Whirlwind • Leroy Scott

... child had asked for her father, accepting quietly enough the explanation that he was in ...

— The Story Of Julia Page - Works of Kathleen Norris, Volume V. • Kathleen Norris

... Waesackoochack took, and placing in the palm of his hand, he blew upon it, till it greatly enlarged itself, and formed a good piece of the earth. He then turned out a deer that soon returned, which led him to suppose that the earth was not large enough, and blowing upon it again its size was greatly increased, so that a loom which he then sent out never returned. The new earth being now of a sufficient size, he turned adrift all the animals that he had preserved. He is supposed still to have some intercourse with and power over ...

— The Substance of a Journal During a Residence at the Red River Colony, British North America • John West

... Puritans of New England, the English of Virginia, even if they had not been so widely separated geographically. Moreover, the isolation of the Scotch-Irish in the wilderness, though it cut them off from voice in the government or protection by it, made them self-reliant people. They had had enough of royal government. Added to this was their natural hatred of British aggression, distaste for the unfairness of those in political power from whom they were so far removed by miles and mountains. They thought for themselves and acted accordingly. Their individualism marked ...

— Blue Ridge Country • Jean Thomas

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