enough

1. 1.

   as much as necessary

   “Have I eaten enough?”

   “I've had plenty, thanks”

   Synonymsplenty

Other forms of enough

plural

enoughs·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about enough

What does enough mean?

enough means "an adequate quantity; a quantity that is large enough to achieve a purpose". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in enough?

enough has 2 syllables: e-nough. The stress falls on "nough". In IPA it is /ɪˈnʌf/.

What is another word for enough?

Close synonyms include sufficiency, adequate, plenty. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is enough a common word?

enough is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.