Definition of "enough"

enough

/ɪˈnʌf/

determiner
1. Sufficient; all that is required, needed, or appropriate.
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  How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare!
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Luke 15:17
adverb
1. Sufficiently.
  Quotations
  Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.
  1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 5, in Mr. Pratt's Patients
  The preposterous altruism too! […] Resist not evil. It is an insane immolation of self—as bad intrinsically as fakirs stabbing themselves or anchorites warping their spines in caves scarcely large enough for a fair-sized dog.
  1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVI, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company
  ‘No,’ said Luke, grinning at her. ‘You're not dull enough! […] What about the kid's clothes? I don't suppose they were anything to write home about, but didn't you keep anything? A bootee or a bit of embroidery or anything at all?’
  1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 15, in The China Governess‎
2. Fully; quite; used after adjectives to express slight augmentation of the positive degree, and sometimes equivalent to very.
  Quotations
  I know you well enough; you are Signior Antonio.
  1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene i]
  “[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
  1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company
3. Used after certain adverbs to emphasise that a quality is notable, unexpected, etc.
pronoun
1. A sufficient or adequate number, amount, etc.
interjection
1. Stop! Don't do that any more!
noun
plural enoughs
1. (rare, chiefly in the plural) An instance of being sufficient, or of doing something sufficiently.
  Quotations
  And she was neither beautiful nor handsome, but just at the point halfway between which a girl of twenty-three reaches who inherits good features and healthful figure, and who has learned to dance well, ride well, study enough, golf enough, and has attained the thousand other "well and enoughs" which include talking well and listening enough, and allow a woman to be liked and loved with so little consciousness that she never suspects she is particularly liked at all.
  1909, Edwin Balmer, Waylaid by Wireless: A Suspicion, a Warning, a Sporting Proposition, and a Transatlantic Pursuit, page 29

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