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

      I've already had enough coffee today.

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      We had little enough time to finish the project.

   2. archaicUsed after a noun.

      There is food enough for us all.

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      How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare!

      1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 15:17

      But it wasn’t ransom enough. His captors accepted it all, But didn’t let go of the king.

      1936, Robert Frost, “The Vindictives”, in A Further Range

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1. Sufficiently.

   We don't have long enough nails.

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

   You've worked enough; rest for a bit.

   Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.

   1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter V, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC

   The preposterous altruism too![…]Resist not evil. It is an insane immolation of self—as bad intrinsically as fakirs stabbing themselves or anchorites warping their spines in caves scarcely large enough for a fair-sized dog.

   1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVI, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC

   ‘No,’ said Luke, grinning at her. ‘You're not dull enough! […] What about the kid's clothes? I don't suppose they were anything to write home about, but didn't you keep anything? A bootee or a bit of embroidery or anything at all?’

   1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 15, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC

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

   He is ready enough to accept the offer.

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   I know you well enough; you are Signior Antonio.

   1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]

   “[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”

   1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC

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

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

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   I left my camera on the train, but luckily enough someone handed it in to lost property.

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1. A sufficient or adequate number, amount, etc.

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

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   Enough of you are here to begin the class.

   Get some more plates. There aren’t enough yet.

   Not enough is known yet about the causes of the pandemic.

   I explained enough for her to understand the issue: there wasn't enough of an economic surplus.

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1. Stop! Don't do that any more! It is too much!

   I'm sick of you complaining! Enough!

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

   Synonyms: that's enough, enough already, no more, basta, please, cut it out, knock it off, shut up

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1. in pluralrareAn instance of being sufficient, or of doing something sufficiently.

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   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.

   1909, Edwin Balmer, Waylaid by Wireless: A Suspicion, a Warning, a Sporting Proposition, and a Transatlantic Pursuit, page 29