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The Meaning of enough

  • (a.) Satisfying desire; giving content; adequate to meet the want; sufficient; -- usually, and more elegantly, following the noun to which it belongs.
  • (adv.) In a degree or quantity that satisfies; to satisfaction; sufficiently.
  • (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.
  • (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.
  • (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.
  • (interj.) An exclamation denoting sufficiency, being a shortened form of it is enough.

Synonyms

sufficiency , adequacy , comme il faut , fair to middling , comely , 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 , straitened , poor , scrimped , stingy , impoverished , miserly , scant , drained , niggardly , scarce , sparing , exhausted , mean

Rhymes

acuff , bluff , bruff , buff , chuff , 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