enoughとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English ynogh, from 古期英語 ġenōg (“enough”), from Proto-Germanic *ganōgaz (“enough”) (compare Scots eneuch, West Frisian genôch, Dutch genoeg, German genug, Low German noog, Danish nok, Swedish nog, Icelandic nógur), from *ganuganą 'to suffice' (compare 古期英語 ġeneah), or from *ga- + an unattested *nōgaz, probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eh₂nó(n)ḱe (“he has reached, attained”), perfective of *h₂neḱ- (“to reach”) (compare Old Irish tánaic (“he arrived”), Latin nancisci (“to get”), Lithuanian nèšti (“to carry”), Albanian kënaq (“to please, satisfy”), Ancient Greek ἐνεγκεῖν (enenkeîn, “to carry”).).

発音

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈnʌf/, /iˈnʌf/, /əˈnʌf/
• 韻: -ʌf
• ハイフネーション: e‧nough

限定詞

enough

1. Sufficient; all that is required, needed, or appropriate.

   I've already had enough coffee today.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Luke 15:17:

     How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare!

派生語

• enoughness

副詞

enough

1. Sufficiently.

   I cannot run fast enough to catch up to them.

   Are you man enough to fight me?

   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 5, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.

   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 16, in The Mirror and the Lamp:

     The preposterous altruism too! […] Resist not evil. It is an insane immolation of self—as bad intrinsically as fakirs stabbing themselves or anchorites warping their spines in caves scarcely large enough for a fair-sized dog.

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 15, in The China Governess‎^[1]:

     ‘No,’ said Luke, grinning at her. ‘You're not dull enough! […] What about the kid's clothes? I don't suppose they were anything to write home about, but didn't you keep anything? A bootee or a bit of embroidery or anything at all?’

2. Fully; quite; used to express slight augmentation of the positive degree, and sometimes equivalent to very.

   He is ready enough to accept the offer.

   • 1598–1599 (first performance)​, William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene i]:

     I know you well enough; you are Signior Antonio.

   • 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314, page 0029:

     “[…] 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.”

使用する際の注意点

• As an adverb, enough always follows the verb, adjective or adverb it qualifies.

派生語

• given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow

代名詞

enough

1. A sufficient or adequate number, amount, etc.

   I have enough to keep me going.

間投詞

enough!

1. Stop! Don't do that any more!

   I'm sick of you complaining! Enough!