2021-04-30
ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด – A – ample & enough
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ออกเสียง ample = ‘AM-puhl’
ออกเสียง enough = ‘ih-NUHF’
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SYNONYM STUDY FOR AMPLE
Ample, liberal, copious, profuse
describe degreesof abundant provision.
Ample implies a plentiful provision:
to give ample praise.
Liberal implies provision from a generous supply
(more than ample but less than copious):
Liberalamounts of food were distributed to the needy.
Copious implies an apparently inexhaustible and lavish abundance:
a copious flow of tears.
Profuse implies a still more unrestrained abundance of provision or flow:
profuse in his apologies.
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VOCAB BUILDER
Whatdoes ample mean?
Ample means enough—sufficient or adequate.
It can also mean more than enough—plentiful or abundant.
It is often used in the context of things
liketime, room, space, supplies, or resources (such as foodand money)
to indicatethat there is enough or more than enough of what is needed.
Sometimes,
ample means large in size, extent, or amount,
as in: It was an ample tract of land.
Ample can be used in front of a noun,
as in: We have ample funds to cover the purchase,
or elsewhere in the sentence,
as in: The payment was ample.
The adverb form of ample is amply,
meaning sufficientlyor abundantly,
as in: He gave amplyto charity.
Example:
There was no one else there, so there was ample space to spread out.
Wheredoes ample come from?
The first recordsof the word ample come from the 1400s.
It comes from theLatin amplus, meaning “large,” “wide,” or “spacious.”
The words amplitude and amplify are based on the same root.
Amplitude can refer to the state of being ample,
butit’s typically used
in a more specific way in technical and scientificmeasurements.
More commonly,
the noun ampleness refers to
the state of having enough or more than enough.
Ample has many common synonyms,
and it also has many antonyms(opposites) that mean “not enough,” including insufficient, inadequate, scant, scanty, and meager.
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VOCAB BUILDER
Whatis a basic definition of enough?
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.
Ifyou have enough of something,
you have at least metthe minimum requirement.
- Real-life examples:
Ifyou have enough money to buy food,
you won’t run outof money when you purchase it,
though you might not have a lot of money left afterwards.
Ifyou have enough points to pass a test,
you won’t fail the test but you won’t get an A, either.
- Used in a sentence:
We had 15 people show up, enough to form our basketball team.
Asan adverb, enough means in a degree that is satisfactory.
This senseis often used in the negative
to mean something failed to meet expectations or was insufficient.
- Real-life examples:
If your boss doesn’t think you work hard enough,
they may fire you.
Ifyou practice the violin enough,
you may become betterat playing it.
- Used in a sentence:
The door was just wide enough to fit the couch through it.
Enough is also used to mean fully, quite, or plenty.
This senseis used to describe a situation
where something has met the maximum requirement
and anything more is unnecessary.
This sense is not used in the negative.
- Real-life examples:
If you can pay all your bills and go on vacation,
you can say you earn enough.
You know you’ve studied enough
when you can answer all the practice questions correctly.
- Used in a sentence:
She decided the dog had eaten enough and took the food bowl away.
Where does enough come from?
The first recordsof enough come from before the 900s.
It comes from theOld English word genōh
and is related tothe German genug and the Old Norse nōgr.
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Choosethe Right Synonym for enough
Adjective
SUFFICIENT, ENOUGH, ADEQUATE, COMPETENT
mean beingwhat is necessary or desirable.
SUFFICIENT suggests a close meeting of a need.
sufficient savings
ENOUGH is less exact in suggestion than SUFFICIENT.
do you have enough food?
ADEQUATE may imply barely meeting a requirement.
the service was adequate
COMPETENT suggests measuring up to all requirements without question or being adequately adapted to an end.
had no competent notion of what was going on
Collins COBUILD English Usage
enough
1. after adjectives and adverbs
You use enough after an adjective or adverb
to say thatsomeone or something has as much of a quality as is needed.
It's big enough.
We have a long enough list.
The student isn't trying hard enough.
Ifyou want to say who the person or thing is acceptable to,
you add a prepositional phrase beginning with for.
That's good enough for me.
Is the soup hot enough for you?
Ifsomeone has as much of a quality as they need
in order to do something,
you add a to-infinitive after enough.
The children are old enough to travel to school on their own.
You can also use a to-infinitive after enough
to say that something has as much of a quality as is needed
for someone to do something with it.
If you want to make it clear who you are talking about,
you can add a prepositional phrase beginning with for.
For example,
you cansay 'The boat was close enough to touch'
or'The boat was close enough for me to touch it'.
The bananas are ripe enough to eat.
The music was just loud enough for us to hear it.
Be Careful!
Don't use a that-clause after enough
when you are saying what is needed for something to be possible.
Don't say, for example,
'The bananas are ripe enough that we can eat them'.
Enough is sometimes used after an adjective
to confirmor emphasize
that somethingor someone has a particular quality.
It's a common enough dilemma.
When you make a statement of this kind,
you often add a second statement that contrasts with it.
She's likeable enough, but very ordinary.
2. used as a determiner
Enough is used in front of the plural form of a countable noun
to say that there are as many things or people as are needed.
They need to make sure there are enough bedrooms for the family.
Do we have enough chairs?
You can also use enough in front of an uncountable noun
to say that there is as much of something as is needed.
We had enough room to store all the information.
He hasn't had enough exercise.
3. 'enough of'
Don't use enough immediately in front of a noun phrase
beginning with a determiner, or in front of a pronoun.
Insteadyou use enough of.
All parents worry about whether their child is getting enough of the right foods.
They haven't had enough of it.
When you use enough of in front of a plural noun or pronoun,
you use a plural form of a verb with it.
Eventually enough of these shapes were collected.
There were enough of them to fill a large box.
When you use enough of in front of a singular
or uncountable nounor a singular pronoun,
you use a singular form of a verb with it.
Is there enough of a market for this product?
There is enough of it for everybody.
4. used as a pronoun
Enough can be used on its own as a pronoun.
I've got enough to worry about.
Enough has been said about this already.
5. 'not enough'
Don't use enough, or enough and a noun,
as the subject of a negative sentence.
Don't say, for example, 'Enough people didn't come'.
You say'Not enough people came'.
Not enough has been done to help them.
Not enough attention is paid to young people.
6. modifying adverbs
You can use adverbs
such as nearly, almost, just, hardly, and quite in front of enough.
At present there is just enough to feed them.
There was hardly enough time to have lunch.
You can also use these adverbs in front of an expression
consisting of an adjective and enough.
We are all nearly young enough to be mistaken for students.
She is just old enough to work.
7. used with sentence adverbials
You can use enough after sentence adverbials like interestingly or strangely to draw attention to a surprising quality in what you are saying.
Interestingly enough, there were some questions that Brian couldn't answer.
I find myself strangely enough in agreement with Jamal for a change.
Dictionary of Problem Words in English
ample& enough
Ample means “more than enough,”
“more than adequatein size, capacity, or scope.”
Enoughmeans “sufficient,”
“in or to a degree or quantity that satisfies.”
Since ample means what it does,
it is silly to attempt to qualify it;
“barely ample” and “scarcely ample” are illogical.
Adequatesynonyms:
abundance for ample,
sufficient or adequate for enough.”
“The cabin was stocked with an ample supply of food, enough to last us longer than two-week stay.”