adj as much as is needed ○ Have you got enough money for your fare or to pay your fare? ○ There isn’t enough light to take photographs. Synonym sufficient. Antonym insufficient ■ pron as much of something as is needed ○ I had £20 in my purse to pay the taxi, but it wasn’t enough. ○ Have you all had enough to eat? ■ adv as much as is needed ○ This box isn’t big enough for all these books. ○ He doesn’t work fast enough and so gets behind the others.
e•nough´
(e•nuf´), a. [OE. inoh, inow, enogh, AS. genoh, genog, a. & adv. (akin to OS. ginog, D. genoeg, OHG. ginoug, G. genug, Icel. gnogr, Sw. nog, Dan. nok, Goth. ganohs), fr. geneah it suffices (akin to Goth. ganah); pref. ge- + a root akin to L. nancisci to get, Skr. naç, Gr. ’enegkei^n to carry.] Satisfying desire; giving content; adequate to meet the want; sufficient; — 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•nough´
adv.
1. In a degree or quantity that satisfies; to satisfaction; sufficiently.
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.
3. In a tolerable degree; — used to express mere acceptableness or acquiescence, and implying a degree or quantity rather less than is desired; as the song was well enough. Enough usually follows the word it modifies.
1. In a degree or quantity that satisfies; to satisfaction; sufficiently.
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.
3. In a tolerable degree; — used to express mere acceptableness or acquiescence, and implying a degree or quantity rather less than is desired; as the song was well enough. Enough usually follows the word it modifies.
e•nough´
n. A sufficiency; a quantity which satisfies desire, is adequate to the want, or is equal to the power or ability; as he had enough to do take care of himself. ´Enough is as good as a feast.´ “And Esau said, I have enough, my brother.” Gen. xxxiii. 9.
"There is never enough time," said Rafiki wisely.
The scentence about “The Lion King”.
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