SURE ENOUGH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sure enough mean? 

• SURE ENOUGH (adverb)
  The adverb SURE ENOUGH has 2 senses:

1. as supposed or expected

2. definitely or positively ('sure' is sometimes used informally for 'surely')

  Familiarity information: SURE ENOUGH used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SURE ENOUGH (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

As supposed or expected

Context example:

sure enough, he asked her for money again

Sense 2

Meaning:

Definitely or positively ('sure' is sometimes used informally for 'surely')

Synonyms:

certainly; for certain; for sure; sure; sure as shooting; sure enough; surely

Context example:

sure he'll come

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

 Context examples 

“Yes, yes, here he is, sure enough! Cadogan West was the young man who was found dead on the Underground on Tuesday morning.”

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He had called it a cabin, and a cabin it was, sure enough, for you would have thought that you were in a ship.

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

Sure enough there was no hurry.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Yes, yes, I will go and see her, sure enough.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Sure enough, smaller tracks of the same general form were running parallel to the large ones.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And sure enough there was a book on the table which had the air of being very recently closed: a volume of Shakespeare.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Sure enough, on the rise of a curve upon our right the four-in-hand had appeared, the horses stretched to the utmost.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Sure enough sleep must soon have come to me, for I remember no more. Jonathan coming in had not waked me, for he lay by my side when next I remember.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I knew where to look for her, now; and sure enough I found her stopping her ears again, behind the same dull old door.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

When they examined the information gathered during that flyby 21 years ago, sure enough, high-resolution magnetometer data showed something strange.

(Old Data Reveal New Evidence of Europa Plumes, NASA)