| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | e·nough |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   -n f |
| ADJECTIVE: | Sufficient to meet a need or satisfy a desire; adequate: enough work to keep us all busy. See synonyms at sufficient. | | PRONOUN: | An adequate number or quantity: “The Gods above should give,/They have enough and we do poorly live” (Henry David Thoreau). | | ADVERB: | 1. To a satisfactory amount or degree; sufficiently: Is the fish cooked enough? 2. Very; fully; quite: We were glad enough to leave. 3. Tolerably; rather: She sang well enough, but the show was a failure. | | INTERJECTION: | Used to express impatience or exasperation: You've been practicing the guitar all afternoon. Enough! | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English enogh, from Old English gen g. See nek-2 in Appendix I.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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