Enough | Webster's Dictionary (1865)

E-nough', a.

adjective

(e-nŭf'), a. [A-S. genôh, genôg, a. and adv., nôh, nôg, adv., from geneah, it is sufficient, root neah, neohan, O. Sax. ginog, D. genoeg, O. H. Ger. kinwoc, M. H. Ger. genuoc, N. H. Ger. genug, Icel. nög, nogr, Sw. nog, Dan. nok, Goth. ganohs, from ga-nahan, to suffice, Ger. genügen.] Satisfying desire; giving content; meeting reasonable expectation; adequate to want or demand; answering the purpose;—usually, and more elegantly, following the noun to which it belongs.

How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare! Luke xv. 17.

E-noûgh', adv.

adverb

(e-nŭf'), adv. 1. In a degree or quantity that satisfies; to satisfaction; as much as one can ask or expect; sufficiently.

Sense 2. Fully; quite;—used to express slight augmentation of the positive degree, and sometimes equivalent to very; as, he is ready enough to embrace the offer.

I know you well enough; you are Signior Antonio. Shak.

Thou knowest well enough . . . that this is no time to lend money. Shak.

Sense 3. In a tolerable degree;—used to express diminution, or a degree or quantity rather less than is desired, or which merely commands acquiescence; as, the song was well enough.

E-nough', n.

noun

(e-nŭf'), n. A sufficiency; a quantity which satisfies desire, is adequate to the want, or equal to the power or ability; as, he had enough to do to take care of himself. And Esau said, I have enough, my brother. Gen. xxxiii. 9. Enough! an exclamation denoting sufficiency, being a shortened form of it is enough.