enough
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1. enough - Noun
2. enough - Adjective
3. enough - Adverb
4. enough - Pronoun
5. enough - Interjection
7. enough - Adjective Satellite
8. enough - Determiner
Meaning
Satisfying desire; giving content; adequate to meet the want; sufficient; -- usually, and more elegantly, following the noun to which it belongs.
In a degree or quantity that satisfies; to satisfaction; sufficiently.
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.
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.
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.
An exclamation denoting sufficiency, being a shortened form of it is enough.
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You never know what is enough unless you know more than enough.
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
You need Power, only when you want to do something harmful otherwise Love is enough to get everything done.
It is not enough to run; you must start on time.
It is enough to see a person in one task to understand what they are like in ten others.
The flour tastes bitter to the mouse who has had enough.