Dictionary Entry
enough
enough is a 6-letter English word with 9 senses as adjective, adverb, noun, and interjection in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Satisfying desire; giving content; adequate to meet the want; sufficient; -- usually, and more elegantly, following the noun to which it belongs. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Satisfying desire; giving content; adequate to meet the want; sufficient; -- usually, and more elegantly, following the noun to which it belongs.
- 2adverb
In a degree or quantity that satisfies; to satisfaction; sufficiently.
- 3adverb
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.
- 4adverb
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.
- 5noun
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.
- 6interjection
An exclamation denoting sufficiency, being a shortened form of it is enough.
- 7noun
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"
Synonyms
- 8adjective
sufficient for the purpose
"an adequate income"
"the food was adequate"
- 9adverb
as much as necessary; (`plenty' is nonstandard) "I've had plenty, thanks"
"Have I eaten enough?"
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