ENOUGH
\ɪnˈʌf], \ɪnˈʌf], \ɪ_n_ˈʌ_f]\
Definitions of ENOUGH
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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an adequate quantity; a quantity that is large enough to achieve a purpose; "enough is as good as a feast"; "there is more than a sufficiency of lawyers in this country"
By Princeton University
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an adequate quantity; a quantity that is large enough to achieve a purpose; "enough is as good as a feast"; "there is more than a sufficiency of lawyers in this country"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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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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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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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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.
By Oddity Software
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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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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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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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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.
By Noah Webster.
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A sufficiency.
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So as to be sufficient; very.
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Stop.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Sufficient: giving content: satisfying want.
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Sufficiency: as much as satisfies desire or want.
By Daniel Lyons
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adv. Sufficiently;—fully; quite; —in a tolerable degree.
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n. A sufficiency; a quantity which satisfies desire;—that which is equal to one’s powers or wishes.
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Being in a sufficient measure, such as may satisfy.
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Something sufficient in greatness or excellence.
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In a sufficient degree, in a degree that gives satisfaction; an exclamation noting fulness or satiety.
By Thomas Sheridan
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