enough
/ɪˈnʌf/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: 5.54 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
det
Sufficient; all that is required, needed, or appropriate.
adv
adv
Fully; quite; used after adjectives to express slight augmentation of the positive degree, and sometimes equivalent to very.
pron
A sufficient or adequate number, amount, etc.
noun
An instance of being sufficient, or of doing something sufficiently.
Example Sentences
- "I've already had enough coffee today."
- "There is food enough for us all."
- "How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare!"
- "But it wasn’t ransom enough. His captors accepted it all, But didn’t let go of the king."
- "Those pears aren't ripe enough for the children to eat (them)."
- "You've worked enough; rest for a bit."
Etymology
From Middle English ynogh, from Old English ġenōg (“enough”), from Proto-Germanic *ganōgaz (“enough”) (compare Scots eneuch, West Frisian genôch, Dutch genoeg, German genug, Low German (ge)noog, Danish nok, Swedish nog, Icelandic nógur), from *ganuganą 'to suffice' (compare Old English ġeneah), or from *ga- + an unattested *nōgaz, probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eh₂nó(n)ḱe (“he has reached, attained”), perfective of *h₂neḱ- (“to reach”) (compare Old Irish tánaic (“he arrived”), Latin nancisci (“to get”), Albanian kënaq (“to please, satisfy”)).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: ynogh, ġenōg, *ganōgaz, *h₂eh₂nó(n)ḱe
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɪˈnʌf/
- British English: /ɪˈnʌf/
Usage
Inflected Forms
enow (alternative)
anough (alternative)
aneuch (alternative)
eneuch (alternative)
eneugh (alternative)
'nough (alternative)
enuf (alternative)
enuff (alternative)
enough! (canonical)
enoughs (plural)