What Does This Level Mean? (2024)

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What does it mean when someone says "enough"? ›

sufficient, enough, adequate, competent mean being what is necessary or desirable.

Enough is an adjective that describes something that is adequate for an intended purpose. Enough is also used as an adverb to mean sufficiently or fully. Enough also has senses as a pronoun and an interjection. Enough describes something as being adequate or sufficient.

to want something to stop because it is annoying you: I've had enough - I'm going home. The coach had had enough. "Get your stuff and go home!" he yelled. The children had been playing up all day and she'd had enough.

Enough means as much as you need or as much as is necessary.

convention. You say 'that's enough' to tell someone, especially a child, to stop behaving in a silly, noisy, or unpleasant way.

enough comes after adjectives and adverbs. I'm not tall enough to reach the top shelf. Your marks are good enough to study engineering at university. I couldn't write quickly enough and I ran out of time.

Some common synonyms of enough are adequate, competent, and sufficient. While all these words mean "being what is necessary or desirable," enough is less exact in suggestion than sufficient.

just enough n

(precisely sufficient amount) (informal)

Want no more of something, as in I've had enough of their quarreling . This phrase uses enough in the sense of “an adequate amount,” which is intended ironically to mean “a more than sufficient amount.” [c.

To have enough of somebody means that you don't want to have anything to do with him / her anymore.

What does it mean when you had enough? ›

If you say that you have had enough, you mean that you are unhappy with a situation and you want it to stop.

It can mean you are sated, you have enough of something, you are satisfied with what you have. EX: I wasn't really very hungry so when he offered me a simple snack of fruit, that was enough for me. Her presentation was brilliant and that was enough for me to offer her the job.

You are enough means that you don't have to strive to become more worthy, more valid, more acceptable, or more loved.

idiom. correct or accurate but not completely explaining something: It's true enough that he had doubts about the project, but we have to look further to understand why he resigned.

Enough is a determiner, a pronoun or an adverb. We use enough to mean 'as much as we need or want'.

informal. used in speech to say that one understands what someone is telling him or her and no further information is needed.

At its core, the phrase is about self-acceptance and self-worth, and it's about understanding that you are worthy of love, respect, and all of the good things that life has to offer, just as you are. ​