much

much
adj
1. abundant, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, replete; ample, sufficient, large, considerable, Archaic. mickle; saturated, full, brimming, chock-full, brimful, overflowing, fulsome; liberal, generous, luxuriant, extravagant, riotous, bountiful; profuse, numerous, countless, multitudinous, inexhaustible, bottomless; swarming, teeming, rife, rampant, flush, fraught.
n
2. a lot, a great deal, abundance, plenty, plenitude, repletion, galore, Archaic. muchness; amplitude, exuberance, myriad, lavishness, profusion, extravagance; wealth, fullness, opulence, riot, bonanza; shower, gush, stream, cascade, deluge, avalanche, volley, plethora; superfluity, superabundance, spate, satiety; fill, surfeit, copiousness, cornucopia; lots, quantities, Sl. scads, Sl. gobs, Sl. wads, Inf. oodles; tons, barrels, pecks, bushels, Brit. Inf. bags, Chiefly Brit. Inf. lashings; loads, piles, heaps, lumps, mounds, masses, stacks; raft, Inf. slew, mess, batch, mint, pot, stock, store; volumes, reams, pages, numbers, scores; acres, mountains, worlds, oceans, seas; host, legion, swarm, multitude, drove, flock; crowd, litter, shoal, hive, flight, pack, herd, school.
3. make much of
a. amplify, overstate, heighten, emphasize, stress.b. pamper, flatter, coddle, indulge. See make(def.26).
adv
4. greatly, well, largely, abundantly, highly; to a great extent, to a large degree, considerably, muchly, so, ever so; a lot, a great deal, Inf. no end of, galore, Fr. beaucoup. in abundance; in the large, in a big way, on a large scale, in great measure, at length, wholesale; freely, without stint, Inf. to the skies, to one's heart's content; copiously, bountifully, liberally, generously, exuberantly; riotously, profusely, plentifully, Inf. aplenty; vastly, immensely, enormously, hugely.
5. nearly, approximately, close, closely; about, nigh, well-nigh, almost, around, towards; just about, all but, not quite, Inf. pretty much; roughly, Inf. practically, more or less, give or take a little, for all practical purposes, for the most part; generally, roundly, in round numbers.
6. frequently, often, oftentimes, over and over, again and again, repeatedly; recurrently, time and again, time after time, many times, a number of times; habitually, persistently, repetitively, chronically.

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