enough
adverb /ɪˈnʌf/Definition
A2 used after an adjective, adverb, or verb to mean to the necessary degree: Is the water hot enough yet? I don't think he's really experienced enough for this sort of job. She told me it was brand new and I was stupid enough to believe her.formal Would you be good enough to take my bag upstairs for me?Enough › used after an adjective or adverb to mean quite: He's bad enough, but his brother is far worse. She's gone away for six months, but strangely/oddly/funnily enough (= surprisingly), her boyfriend doesn't seem too unhappy about it.Enough
(Definition of enough adverb from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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- General words for size and amount
- Increasing and intensifying
- Large in number or quantity
- Masses and large amounts of things
- Maximum and minimum
- Medium-sized
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- Plenty and abundant
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- Things collected in lines or rings
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- Unavailable and inaccessible
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Synonyms and related words:
- adequate adjective
- bells and whistles idiom
- cover verb (BE ENOUGH)
- enough determiner, pronoun, adverb
- fill noun
- go round phrasal verb (BE ENOUGH)
- hold out phrasal verb (SUPPLY OF STH)
- respectable adjective
- respectably adverb
- say when idiom
- suffice (it) to say idiom
- suffice verb
- sufficiency noun
- sufficient adjective
- that will do idiom
- the determiner (ENOUGH)
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