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The Meaning of enough
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(a.) Satisfying desire; giving content; adequate to meet the want; sufficient; -- usually, and more elegantly, following the noun to which it belongs.
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(adv.) In a degree or quantity that satisfies; to satisfaction; sufficiently.
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(adv.) 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.
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(adv.) 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.
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(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.
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(interj.) An exclamation denoting sufficiency, being a shortened form of it is enough.
Synonyms
sufficiency
,
adequacy
,
comme il faut
,
fair to middling
,
comely
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tolerable
,
passable
,
becoming
,
equal
,
decorous
,
adequate
,
nice
,
seemly
,
decent
,
plenty
,
plentiful
,
abounding
,
bountiful
,
generous
,
plenteous
,
abundant
,
complete
,
large
,
profuse
,
copious
,
lavish
,
replete
,
affluent
,
liberal
,
rich
,
ample
,
exuberant
,
luxuriant
,
sufficient
,
bounteous
,
full
,
overflowing
,
teeming
Antonyms
deficient
,
insufficient
,
inadequate
,
narrow
,
scanty
,
small
,
short
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straitened
,
poor
,
scrimped
,
stingy
,
impoverished
,
miserly
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scant
,
drained
,
niggardly
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scarce
,
sparing
,
exhausted
,
mean
Rhymes
acuff
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bluff
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bruff
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buff
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chuff
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cluff
,
cuff
,
cuffe
,
duff
,
dyestuff
,
earmuff
,
fisticuff
,
fluff
,
foodstuff
,
gruff
,
guff
,
handcuff
,
hough
,
huff
,
leboeuf
,
lebouef
,
luff
,
macduff
,
mcduff
,
mcgeough
,
mcgough
,
muff
,
overstuff
,
pluff
,
puff
,
rebuff
,
rough
,
ruf
,
ruff
,
schuff
,
scottsbluff
,
scruff
,
scuff
,
shuff
,
slough
,
sluff
,
snuff
,
stough
,
stuff
,
tough
,
tuff