GOOD ENOUGH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does good enough mean? 

• GOOD ENOUGH (adjective)
  The adjective GOOD ENOUGH has 1 sense:

1. adequately good for the circumstances

  Familiarity information: GOOD ENOUGH used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOOD ENOUGH (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Adequately good for the circumstances

Context example:

if it's good enough for you it's good enough for me

Similar:

good (having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified)

 Context examples 

An' I won't tell 'm in French. Plain United States is good enough for me. Him a-ringin' in fancy starch extras!

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

‘That’s not quite good enough,’ answered Forbes.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He not only brought it immediately, but was good enough to look over me while I wrote the letter.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

You're not half good enough for—well, whoever the modest girl may be. and Jo looked a little queer likewise, for a name had almost escaped her.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Am not I good enough for you?

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

But that was not quite good enough, Mr. Holmes.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"If you're trying to find that last few hot spots," Lindsay says, "rather than screening everyone, the dogs might be good enough to go into the villages to find people."

(The Dog's Nose Knows Malaria, Kevin Enochs/VOA)

Since you are good enough to allow it, I shall most certainly take it upon myself to act as pioneer upon this occasion.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But mama did not think the match good enough for me, otherwise Sir John would have mentioned it to the Colonel, and we should have been married immediately.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Her friends evidently thought this good enough for her; and it was good enough.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)