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GOOD ENOUGH
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Adequately good for the circumstances
Example:
if it's good enough for you it's good enough for me
Classified under:
Similar:
good (having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified)
Context examples:
The tide's made good enough by now.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
I give you my word that for three days I have tasted neither food nor drink until you were good enough to pour me out that glass of water.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Shall it be a litany, my good clerk?” shouted a third; “or would a hymn be good enough to serve?”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I do not know who is good enough for him.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
The soil bricks on their own were good enough to filter organic waste and nutrients from the water.
(Soil-based filter bricks clean up water for Moroccan farmers, SciDev.Net)
Her store-room, she thought, might have been good enough for Mrs. Grant to go into.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Who found no woman good enough to be loved!
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
"I'll answer for the Professor. I don't quite see his drift, but I swear he's honest; and that's good enough for me."
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
I would not develop an eccentricity, although he was good enough to point out several by which I might come out of the ruck, as he expressed it, and so catch the attention of the strange world in which he lived.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I thought how I would carry down to you the square of unembroidered blond I had myself prepared as a covering for my low-born head, and ask if that was not good enough for a woman who could bring her husband neither fortune, beauty, nor connections.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
