enough

enough

Language: EN · Kind: word · Transcription: [/ɪˈnʌf/]

Senses

1. enough (det) — sense 1

Definition: Sufficient; all that is required, needed, or appropriate.: Used before a noun in the manner of words like some, a bit of, and so on.

Example: I've already had enough coffee today.

Concept: Достаточность

Polarities of the concept

2. enough (det) — sense 2

Definition: Sufficient; all that is required, needed, or appropriate.: Used after a noun.

Example: There is food enough for us all.

3. enough (adv) — sense 3

Definition: Sufficiently.

Example: Those pears aren't ripe enough for the children to eat (them).

4. enough (adv) — sense 4

Definition: Fully; quite; used after adjectives to express slight augmentation of the positive degree, and sometimes equivalent to very.

Example: He is ready enough to accept the offer.

5. enough (adv) — sense 5

Definition: Used after certain adverbs to emphasise that a quality is notable, unexpected, etc.

Example: Talking of Mr Smith, funnily enough, I saw him just the other day.

6. enough (pron) — sense 6

Definition: A sufficient or adequate number, amount, etc.

Example: I have enough (of it) to keep me going.

7. enough (intj) — sense 7

Definition: Stop! Don't do that any more! It is too much!

Example: Near-synonyms: please, cut it out, knock it off, shut up, STFU

8. enough (noun) — sense 8

Definition: An instance of being sufficient, or of doing something sufficiently.

Example: And she was neither beautiful nor handsome, but just at the point halfway between which a girl of twenty-three reaches who inherits good features and healthful figure, and who has learned to dance well, ride well, study enough, golf enough, and has attained the thousand other "well and enoughs" which include talking well and listening enough, and allow a woman to be liked and loved with so little consciousness that she never suspects she is particularly liked at all.

Polarities

Hedonism ↔ Humility — concept «Достаточность»

Indulgence ↔ Restraint — concept «Достаточность»

Sufficiency ↔ Excess — concept «Достаточность»

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