Enough

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·interj An exclamation denoting sufficiency, being a shortened form of it is enough.

II. Enough ·adv In a degree or quantity that satisfies; to Satisfaction; sufficiently.

III. Enough ·adj Satisfying desire; giving content; adequate to meet the want; sufficient;

— usually, and more elegantly, following the noun to which it belongs.

IV. Enough ·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.

V. Enough ·noun 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.

VI. Enough ·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.

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