What's the difference between enough and very?

Enough


Definition:

  • (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.

Very


Definition:

  • (v. t.) True; real; actual; veritable.
  • (adv.) In a high degree; to no small extent; exceedingly; excessively; extremely; as, a very great mountain; a very bright sum; a very cold day; the river flows very rapidly; he was very much hurt.

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