(a.) Satisfying desire; giving content; adequate to meet the want; sufficient; -- usually, and more elegantly, following the noun to which it belongs.
(adv.) In a degree or quantity that satisfies; to satisfaction; sufficiently.
(adv.) 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.
(adv.) 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.
(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.
(interj.) An exclamation denoting sufficiency, being a shortened form of it is enough.
Example Sentences:
(1) There are no oceans wide enough to stop us from dreaming.
(2) Enough with Clintonism and its prideful air of professional-class virtue.
(3) They retained the ability to make this discrimination when the coloured stimuli were placed against a background bright enough to saturate the rods.3.
(4) The cause has been innumerable "VIP movements", as journeys undertaken by those considered important enough for all other traffic to be held up, sometimes for hours, are described in South Asian bureaucratic speak.
(5) Ten weeks of iron therapy was not, however, long enough to increase iron stores.
(6) Jeremy Corbyn could learn a lot from Ken Livingstone | Hugh Muir Read more High-minded commentators will say that self-respect – as well as Burke’s dictum that MPs are more than delegates – should be enough to make members under pressure assert their independence.
(7) It is suggested that children may learn enough to satisfy their parents' expectations by this age or grade.
(8) The expectation of life at birth was only 30-35 years, but it was long enough to allow for children to be born and for the populations to expand.
(9) Sadler shook her head again when Cameron repeated the much-used statistic that enough water to fill Wembley Stadium three times was being pumped from the Levels each day.
(10) "Maybe dullness is associated with psychic pain," Wallace wrote at one point, "because something that's dull or opaque fails to provide enough stimulation to distract people from some other, deeper type of pain that is always there, if only in an ambient low-level way, and which most of us spend nearly all our time and energy trying to distract ourselves from."
(11) An effective gonadal shield should reduce the gonadal dose to a level low enough to preserve spermatogenesis in most patients.
(12) If you turn the bowl upside down, the whites should be stiff enough not to fall out.
(13) Those sort of year-to-year comparisons can be helpful to visualise changes in the market landscape, but in fast-changing markets it's not enough just to quote a single number.
(14) The results of the study suggest that perhaps tobramycin of cefotaxime-impregnated PMMA beads would produce local levels of antibiotic high enough to sterilize a given dead space for a period of 28 days.
(15) An average size chromomere of the polytene X chromosome of Drosophila melanogaster contains enough DNA in each haploid equivalent strand to code for 30 genes, each 1,000 nucleotides long.
(16) Furthermore, the AMDP-3 scale and its manual constitute a remarkable teaching instrument for psychopathology, not always enough appreciated.
(17) Such margins would be enough to put the first female president in the White House, but Democrats are guarding against complacency.
(18) On taking office Lansley admitted this was not a deep enough cut.
(19) He believes the intelligence and security committee (ISC) has enough powers to do its job.
(20) It's bad enough that they're so thin,” said Kilbourne.
Suffice
Definition:
(v. i.) To be enough, or sufficient; to meet the need (of anything); to be equal to the end proposed; to be adequate.
(v. t.) To satisfy; to content; to be equal to the wants or demands of.
(v. t.) To furnish; to supply adequately.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is a folly to think measures to fix eurozone governance will suffice, however needed those may be.
(2) Around 10(7) leucocytes, corresponding to 1-10 ml blood, sufficed for the analysis.
(3) Since slight hydrostatic pressure on the subepithelial side suffices to reverse the net transfer, it is assumed that in vivo the filtration pressure of the capillaries is the motive force for net transfer into the lumen.
(4) Suffice to say, it was a long, difficult haul with various scares and alarms along the way.
(5) After pretreatment with ranitidine, a specific histamine H2-receptor antagonist, the diastolic pressure rise no longer sufficed to maintain a constant systolic pressure during LBNP.
(6) Our results demonstrate that the partial reduction of a guanine nucleotide, probably relative to some other compound, suffices to initiate sporulation.
(7) A two compartment model sufficed to account for the decay of the oral plasma concentrations in all seven subjects.
(8) Clinical judgment may suffice to classify the clinical severity of patients at the time of enrollment in prospective trials and can provide a useful method of controlling for casemix.
(9) 7 particle sufficed to initiate AAV antigen synthesis.
(10) The kinetics indicate that alkylation of a single SH group suffices to block opiate binding.
(11) 125I tests in vitro today play a very important role and suffice der detection provided radio-immunoassay is carried out, whether the latter concerns iodine hormones or the thyreotropic pituitary hormone and provided the diagnosis is not confirmed by one single examination.
(12) It was calculated that in all animals, 10(-14) mol of IL 1 induced significant neutrophil accumulation, whereas in many animals, as little as 10(-15) mol of IL 1 sufficed.
(13) Atenolol 50-100 mg and bopindolol 0.5-1.0 mg sufficed to cause reduction of DBP to the target of less than or equal to 95 mm Hg, when applied as monotherapy.
(14) "Satisfactory reduction" is insufficient in discussing ankle fractures; only perfect anatomic reduction will suffice.
(15) But [in the long-term] not just any solution will suffice.
(16) By delineating the structuring of this dilemma, in the context of a human studying the sensing of chemicals by bacteria, the author demonstrates that the untenable assumption mentioned above does underlie the traditional Western viewpoints; and this demonstration suffices to show the traditional Western 'World-View' as fundamentally flawed.
(17) Inactivation exhibits pseudo-first-order kinetics and a reaction order of approximately one for both enzymes, suggesting that modification of a single residue per protomeric unit suffices for inactivation.
(18) These data suggest that low concentrations of PAF-acether stimulate the human platelet secretion by activating the cyclo-oxygenase pathway, whereas higher concentrations also trigger other mechanism(s) that suffice to induce human platelet secretion and full aggregation.
(19) This method sufficed to straighten the penis in 10 patients.
(20) These localized lesions can suffice for the diagnosis of RV dysplasia in the absence of associated pathologies, such as ischemic heart disease or congenital defects.