What are the opposite words for enough?
The word "enough" is often used to express a sufficient or satisfactory quantity, degree or level of something. However, in language there are always two sides to every coin, and for "enough", the opposite or antonym is "insufficient" or "not enough." This means that when we say something is not enough, we are essentially implying that we need more of it to meet our needs. Other antonyms for "enough" include "scarce", "scanty", "meager", "inadequate", and "deficient". Therefore, it is important to understand both sides of a word to be able to use it effectively in communication.
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- abandonment
- absence
- weakness
- shortage
- poverty
- imperfection
- failure
- insufficiency
- lack
- dearth
- default
- defect
- flaw
- inadequacy
- incompetency
- deficiency
- inability
- incapability
- plenty
- tergiversation
- nonfeasance
- insolvency
- deficit
- insufficiency, scarcity
- failure; want
- blemish, imperfection
- imperfection, inadequacy
- shortage of something needed, required
- defection
- lack of success
- paucity
- physical defect
- shortage, defect, inability
- deficiency, need
- lack, scarcity
- want; extreme need, often financial
- weak point
- deficit; imperfection
- lack, need
- defect, proneness
- adequately
- short
- weak
- failing
- low
- incomplete
- lacking
- deficient
- useless
- inadequate
- meager
- shy
- sketchy
- defective
- empty
- ineffectual
- missing
- scanty
- skimpy
- sparse
- void
- wanting
- broken, not working
- faulty
- imperfect, inadequate
- not well, weak
- not working; incorrect
- defective, insufficient, incompetent
- wanting, deficient
- reduced; mediocre
- gone, absent
- quiet and self-conscious
- rough, incomplete
- sparse, inadequate
- very few and scattered
- deficient, feeble
- Other relevant words
- Other antonyms
- abandonment
- absence
-
weakness
- faintness,
- inconstancy,
- invalidity,
- vitiation,
- inconstancies,
- chink armor,
- chink in armor,
- faintnesses,
- in constancies,
- in constancy,
- in decision,
- in decisions,
- in stability,
- in validity,
- in-constancies,
- in-constancy,
- in-decision,
- in-decisions,
- in-stabilities,
- in-stability,
- in-validities,
- invalidities,
- sore point,
- vitiations.
- shortage
- poverty
- imperfection
-
failure
- implosion,
- insolvency,
- nonfeasance,
- nonperformance,
- nonsuccess,
- Non-performance,
- de cay,
- de cays,
- de cline,
- de clines,
- de feat,
- de feats,
- de-cay,
- de-cays,
- de-cline,
- de-clines,
- de-feat,
- de-feats,
- flash in pan,
- flash the pan,
- implosions,
- lead balloon,
- lead balloons,
- mis adventure,
- mis adventures,
- mis carriage,
- mis carriages,
- mis steps,
- mis-adventure,
- mis-adventures,
- mis-carriages,
- non performance,
- non performances,
- non success,
- non successes,
- non-successes,
- nonperformances,
- nonsuccesses,
- over throw,
- over throws,
- over-throw,
- over-throws,
- sinking ship,
- sinking ships,
- total loss,
- total losses.
- insufficiency
- lack
- dearth
- default
- defect
- flaw
-
inadequacy
- defectiveness,
- faultiness,
- inadequateness,
- inaptness,
- skimpiness,
- defectivenesses,
- faultinesses,
- in adequacies,
- in adequacy,
- in adequateness,
- in adequatenesses,
- in aptness,
- in aptnesses,
- in capacity,
- in competence,
- in effectiveness,
- in effectivenesses,
- in effectualness,
- in effectualnesses,
- in efficacies,
- in efficacy,
- in efficiencies,
- in efficiency,
- in-adequacies,
- in-adequacy,
- in-adequateness,
- in-adequatenesses,
- in-aptness,
- in-aptnesses,
- in-capacities,
- in-capacity,
- in-competences,
- in-completenesses,
- in-effectiveness,
- in-effectivenesses,
- in-effectualness,
- in-efficacies,
- in-efficacy,
- in-efficiencies,
- in-efficiency,
- inadequatenesses,
- inaptnesses,
- skimpinesses,
- un fitness,
- un fitnesses,
- un suitableness,
- un suitablenesses,
- un-fitness,
- un-fitnesses,
- un-suitableness,
- un-suitablenesses.
- incompetency
- deficiency
- inability
-
incapability
- inaptitude,
- ineptness,
- inutility,
- Incapacitation,
- inutilities,
- dis qualification,
- dis qualifications,
- dis-qualification,
- dis-qualifications,
- in aptitude,
- in capability,
- in capacitation,
- in capacitations,
- in utilities,
- in utility,
- in-aptitude,
- in-aptitudes,
- in-capabilities,
- in-capability,
- in-capacitation,
- in-utilities,
- in-utility,
- inaptitudes,
- incapacitations.
- plenty
- tergiversation
- nonfeasance
- insolvency
- deficit
- insufficiency, scarcity
- failure; want
- blemish, imperfection
- imperfection, inadequacy
- shortage of something needed, required
- defection
- lack of success
- paucity
- physical defect
- shortage, defect, inability
-
deficiency, need
- lack.
- lack, scarcity
- want; extreme need, often financial
- weak point
- deficit; imperfection
-
lack, need
- want.
- defect, proneness
- adequately
-
short
- in a nutshell,
- not long,
- pint-sized,
- pocket-sized,
- runty,
- sawed-off,
- short,
- shortest,
- Curtate,
- shorthanded,
- decurtate,
- shortlived,
- Unsustained,
- bad tempered,
- badtempered,
- boiled down,
- breviloquent,
- close ground,
- close the ground,
- close to ground,
- close to the ground,
- compendiary,
- cut bone,
- cut the bone,
- cut to bone,
- cut to the bone,
- de creased,
- de curtate,
- de-creased,
- de-curtate,
- in nutshell,
- low on,
- more abbreviate,
- more abbreviated,
- more breviloquent,
- more compendiary,
- more compressed,
- more curtailed,
- more curtate,
- more decreased,
- more decurtate,
- more diminished,
- more lessened,
- more pint sized,
- more pint-sized,
- more pocket sized,
- more sawed-off,
- more sawedoff,
- more shortened,
- more summarized,
- more unprolonged,
- most abbreviate,
- most abbreviated,
- most breviloquent,
- most compressed,
- most curtailed,
- most curtate,
- most decreased,
- most decurtate,
- most lessened,
- most pint sized,
- most pint-sized,
- most pocket sized,
- most pocket-sized,
- most pocketsized,
- most sawed off,
- most sawed-off,
- most sawedoff,
- most summarized,
- most unsustained,
- not protracted,
- pint sized,
- pocket sized,
- pocketsized,
- runtier,
- runtiest,
- sawed off,
- sawedoff,
- short handed,
- short lived,
- short spoken,
- short sweet,
- short tempered,
- short term,
- shortspoken,
- shorttempered,
- squattier,
- squattiest,
- un civil,
- un gracious,
- un prolonged,
- un sustained,
- un-ceremonious,
- un-civil,
- un-gracious,
- un-prolonged,
- un-sustained,
- under sized,
- under-sized.
-
weak
- forceless,
- in conceivable,
- in conclusive,
- in credible,
- in effective,
- in-conceivable,
- in-conclusive,
- in-credible,
- in-effective,
- more forceless,
- most forceless,
- un believable,
- un convincing,
- un prepared,
- un substantial,
- un sure,
- un trained,
- un-believable,
- un-convincing,
- un-prepared,
- un-substantial,
- un-sure,
- un-trained.
- failing
-
low
- cut rate,
- marked down,
- cut-rate,
- cutrate,
- in expensive,
- in significant,
- in-expensive,
- low grade,
- lowgrade,
- more cut,
- more cut rate,
- more cut-rate,
- more slashed,
- more uncostly,
- most cut,
- most cut rate,
- most cutrate,
- most slashed,
- most uncostly,
- sub standard,
- sub-standard,
- un costly,
- un-costly,
- uncostly.
-
incomplete
- unconsummated,
- Parter,
- Unaccomplished,
- under construction,
- half-done,
- half done,
- halfdone,
- in complete,
- in-coherent,
- in-complete,
- more abridged,
- more garbled,
- more half done,
- more half-done,
- more halfdone,
- more unaccomplished,
- more unconsummated,
- more unexecuted,
- most abridged,
- most expurgated,
- most garbled,
- most half done,
- most half-done,
- most halfdone,
- most unconsummated,
- most unexecuted,
- partest,
- un consummated,
- un done,
- un executed,
- un polished,
- un-accomplished,
- un-consummated,
- un-developed,
- un-executed.
- lacking
-
deficient
- incomplete,
- meager,
- wanting,
- rarest,
- unassembled,
- found wanting,
- not enough,
- in frequent,
- in-frequent,
- more flawed,
- more marred,
- more unassembled,
- most flawed,
- most marred,
- most unassembled,
- not cut out for,
- not make it,
- not scratch,
- not to scratch,
- not up scratch,
- not up to scratch,
- outta gas,
- third string,
- un assembled,
- un equal,
- un satisfactory,
- un-assembled,
- un-equal,
- un-satisfactory.
- useless
-
inadequate
- impotent,
- incapable,
- niggardly,
- scanty,
- too little,
- bushleague,
- glitcher,
- glitchest,
- in adequate,
- in apter,
- in aptest,
- in capable,
- in commensurate,
- in competent,
- in considerable,
- in substantial,
- in-adequate,
- in-apter,
- in-aptest,
- in-capable,
- in-commensurate,
- in-competent,
- in-considerable,
- in-substantial,
- junkest,
- more niggardly,
- more stinted,
- most niggardly,
- most stinted,
- un productive,
- un qualified,
- un-productive,
- un-qualified.
- meager
-
shy
- unassertive,
- unassured,
- uneager,
- unsocial,
- de mure,
- de-mure,
- dis inclined,
- dis trustful,
- dis-inclined,
- dis-trustful,
- in disposed,
- in-disposed,
- more unassertive,
- more uneffusive,
- more unsocial,
- most introvert,
- most unassured,
- most uneager,
- most unsocial,
- re served,
- re tiring,
- re-served,
- re-tiring,
- self effacing,
- selfeffacing,
- un assertive,
- un assured,
- un eager,
- un effusive,
- un responsive,
- un social,
- un willing,
- un-assertive,
- un-assured,
- un-eager,
- un-effusive,
- un-responsive,
- un-social,
- un-willing,
- uneffusive.
- sketchy
- defective
-
empty
- void.
- ineffectual
- missing
- scanty
- skimpy
- sparse
- void
- wanting
- broken, not working
- faulty
- imperfect, inadequate
- not well, weak
- not working; incorrect
- defective, insufficient, incompetent
- wanting, deficient
-
reduced; mediocre
- low.
- gone, absent
-
quiet and self-conscious
- shy.
- rough, incomplete
- sparse, inadequate
- very few and scattered
-
deficient, feeble
- weak.
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Other relevant words
- absence,
- lack,
- need,
- want,
- needfulness,
- approximately,
- awfully,
- barely,
- beastly,
- considerably,
- deadly,
- deficient,
- drained,
- especially,
- exceedingly,
- exceptionally,
- exhausted,
- extensively,
- extremely,
- frightfully,
- greatly,
- half,
- halfway,
- hardly,
- heavily,
- highly,
- hugely,
- impoverished,
- inadequately,
- incompletely,
- insufficiently,
- just,
- kind of,
- marginally,
- mean,
- mightily,
- minimally,
- miserly,
- mortally,
- narrow,
- niggardly,
- part,
- partially,
- particularly,
- partly,
- poor,
- roughly,
- scant,
- scanty,
- scarcely,
- short,
- significantly,
- slightly,
- small,
- somewhat,
- sparing,
- stingy,
- straitened,
- substantially,
- superficially,
- surpassingly,
- terribly,
- unsatisfactorily,
- very,
- bantam,
- diminutive,
- dinky,
- dwarfish,
- exiguous,
- fine,
- half-pint,
- hand-to-mouth,
- lacking,
- light,
- little,
- low,
- meager,
- pocket,
- pocket-size,
- puny,
- shrimpy,
- shy,
- skimp,
- skimpy,
- slender,
- slight,
- slim,
- smallish,
- spare,
- sparing,
- sparse,
- stingy,
- subnormal,
- undersized,
- wanting,
- toylike.
- Other antonyms
Antonym of the day
leading the way
- Antonyms:
- abandon, follow, misguide.
