When there's enough of something, you don't need or want anymore. When there's not enough, there's too little.
Satisfying desire; giving content; adequate to meet the want; sufficient; -- usually, and more elegantly, following the noun to which it belongs.
Noun
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"
Adjective S.
enough to meet a purpose; "an adequate income"; "the food was adequate"; "a decent wage"; "enough food"; "food enough"
Adverb
as much as necessary; "Have I eaten enough?"; (`plenty'' is nonstandard) "I''ve had plenty, thanks"
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.
Enough
How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare!
Enough
I know you well enough; you are Signior Antonio.
Thou knowest well enough . . . that this is no time to lend money.3.
Enough
And Esau said, I have enough, my brother.
Enough
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.
A sufficiency; a quantity which satisfies desire, is adequate to the want, or is equal to the power or ability;
An exclamation denoting sufficiency, being a shortened form of it is enough.
Usage Examples
"If you are interested enough in the climate crisis to read this post, you probably know that 2 degrees Centigrade of warming (or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) is the widely acknowledged threshold for ""dangerous"" climate change."
A tragedy need not have blood and death it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.
A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.
'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.
A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.
A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.
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Other Usage ExamplesA sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.
A friend of my mom's was a casting director so, really as kind of a lark, I had a couple of acting jobs that had just enough exposure to give me the option to continue if I wanted to. I followed through with it.
A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.
A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.
A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.