enough

1. 1.

   an adequate quantity; a quantity that is large enough to achieve a purpose

   “enough is as good as a feast”

   “there is more than a sufficiency of lawyers in this country”

   Synonymssufficiency

   Broaderrelative quantity

   Narrowerfill

1. 1.

   sufficient for the purpose

   “an adequate income”

   “the food was adequate”

   “enough food”

   “food enough”

   Synonymsadequate

   Similarsufficient

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.