enough

Meaning

Det

1. Sufficient; all that is required, needed, or appropriate.
2. (archaic) Sufficient; all that is required, needed, or appropriate.

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

A sufficient or adequate number, amount, etc.

Intj

Stop! Don't do that any more!

Noun

An instance of being sufficient, or of doing something sufficiently.

Synonyms

sufficient

sufficiently

adequate

quite

plenty

rather

adequately

suffice

sufficiency

ample

pretty

fairly

no more

much

amply

full

stop

🛑

satisfactory

many

well

competent

satisfied

😆

satisfy

decent

be enough for

surely

that’s enough

that will do

in full

fully

comfortable

all right

stop it

fullness

capable

good

👍

be enough

fill

adequacy

equal

plenty of

effectual

do

attain

considerably

appropriate

abundance

completion

complete

most likely

Translations

genug

bastante

genoeg

abbastanza

assez

sufficiente

suficiente

suffisamment

suffisant

prou

genügend

bastante

voldoende

suficiente

satis

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɪˈnʌf/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: ynogh

Inherited from Old English: ġenōg

Cognate with Scots: eneuch

Cognate with Western Frisian: genôch

Cognate with Dutch: genoeg

Cognate with German: genug

Cognate with Low German: noog

Cognate with Danish: nok

Cognate with Swedish: nog

Cognate with Icelandic: nógur

Cognate with Old English: ġeneah

Cognate with Old Irish: tánaic

Cognate with Latin: nancisci

Cognate with Lithuanian: nesti

Cognate with Albanian: kënaq

Cognate with Ancient Greek: ἐνεγκεῖν

In summary

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”).).

Sentences

His painting went well , and life went well enough .

The concert was loud enough for everyone in the city to hear .

It was just ripe enough to eat .

The new bridge is wide enough for the passing loop to be extended .

Nadia had had enough complaints of all the complaints from Sofia .

I'm not good enough to make this one up .