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almost
English
Alternative forms
- aulmos (Jamaican English)
Etymology
From Middle English [Term?], from Old English eallm?st (“nearly all, almost, for the most part”), equivalent to all- +? most.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /???l.m??st/, (emphatic, utterance-final) /??l.?m??st/
- (colloquial, unaccented) IPA(key): /???(l)m?s/
- (US) IPA(key): /??l.mo?st/, /??l.mo?st/, /?o?.mo?st/
- Hyphenation: al?most
- Rhymes: -??st
Adverb
almost (not comparable)
- Very close to, but not quite.
Synonyms
- (very close to, but not quite): nearly, nigh, well-nigh, near, close to, next to, practically, virtually, not yet, not
Translations
Noun
almost (plural almosts)
- (informal) Something or someone that doesn't quite make it.
Anagrams
- Altoms, smalto, stomal
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enough
English
Alternative forms
- enow
- anough (obsolete)
- aneuch, eneuch, eneugh (Scotland)
- 'nough
- enuff
Etymology
From Middle English ynogh, from Old English ?en?g (“enough”), from Proto-Germanic *gan?gaz (“enough”) (compare Scots eneuch, West Frisian genôch, Dutch genoeg, German genug, Low German noog, Danish nok, Swedish nog, Icelandic nógur), from *ganugan? 'to suffice' (compare Old English ?eneah), or from *ga- + an unattested *n?gaz, probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?eh?nó(n)?e (“he has reached, attained”), perfective of *h?ne?- (“to reach”) (compare Old Irish tánaic (“he arrived”), Latin nancisci (“to get”), Lithuanian nèšti (“to carry”), Albanian kënaq (“to please, satisfy”), Ancient Greek ???????? (enenkeîn, “to carry”).).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??n?f/, /i?n?f/, /??n?f/
- Rhymes: -?f
- Hyphenation: e?nough
Determiner
enough
- Sufficient; all that is required, needed, or appropriate.
- How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare!
Derived terms
- enoughness
Translations
Adverb
enough
- Sufficiently.
- You've worked enough; rest for a bit.
- Fully; quite; used after adjectives to express slight augmentation of the positive degree, and sometimes equivalent to very.
- “[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons?! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
- Used after certain adverbs to emphasise that a quality is notable, unexpected, etc.
- Talking of Mr Smith, funnily enough, I saw him just the other day.
- I left my camera on the train, but luckily enough someone handed it in to lost property.
Usage notes
- As an adverb, in modern English, enough almost always follows the verb, adjective or adverb that it qualifies. In older language, cases where it precedes the modified word, e.g. "He was enough satisfied" or "I was not enough recompensed", may be seen.
Derived terms
- given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow
Translations
Pronoun
enough
- A sufficient or adequate number, amount, etc.
- I have enough (of it) to keep me going.
- Enough of you are here to begin the class.
- Get some more plates. There aren’t enough yet.
- Not enough is known yet about the causes of the pandemic.
Translations
Interjection
enough!
- Stop! Don't do that any more!
- I'm sick of you complaining! Enough!
Translations
Noun
enough (plural enoughs)
- (rare, chiefly in the plural) An instance of being sufficient, or of doing something sufficiently.
- 1909, Edwin Balmer, Waylaid by Wireless: A Suspicion, a Warning, a Sporting Proposition, and a Transatlantic Pursuit, page 29:
- And she was neither beautiful nor handsome, but just at the point halfway between which a girl of twenty-three reaches who inherits good features and healthful figure, and who has learned to dance well, ride well, study enough, golf enough, and has attained the thousand other "well and enoughs" which include talking well and listening enough, and allow a woman to be liked and loved with so little consciousness that she never suspects she is particularly liked at all.
- 1909, Edwin Balmer, Waylaid by Wireless: A Suspicion, a Warning, a Sporting Proposition, and a Transatlantic Pursuit, page 29:
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