| Main Entry: | many |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | profuse, abundant |
Synonyms: |
abounding, alive with, bounteous, bountiful, copious, countless, crowded, divers, frequent, innumerable, legion, lousy with, manifold, multifarious, multifold, multiplied, multitudinous, myriad, no end of, numberless, numerous, plentiful, populous, prevalent, rife, several, sundry, teeming, umpteen, uncounted, varied, various |
| Notes: | many means being one of a large indefinite number, while much means great in quantity, degree, or extent many means being one of a large indefinite number; several means of an indefinite number more than 2 or 3 but not many |
Antonyms: |
few, scarce |
| Main Entry: | many |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abundance; a lot |
Synonyms: |
gobs, heaps, horde, jillion, large numbers, mass, multitude, oodles*, piles, plenty, scads, scores, thousands, throng, tons, umpteen, whole slew |
Antonyms: |
few |
| Main Entry: | certain |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | referring to a specifically known amount |
Synonyms: |
a couple, a few, defined, divers, express, individual, many, marked, numerous, one, particular, precise, regular, several, singular, some, special, specific, specified, sundry, upwards of, various |
| Main Entry: | countless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | innumerable |
Synonyms: |
bags of, endless, gobs, heap*, immeasurable, incalculable, infinite, innumerous, jillion, legion, limitless, loads, lots of, many, measureless, mess*, mint, mucho, multitudinous, myriad, numberless, oodles*, passel of, peck, pile, raft, scads, slew, stack, tidy sum, umpteen, uncountable, uncounted, untold, wad, whole slew, zillion |
Antonyms: |
calculable, countable, counted, limited, measurable, numbered, numerable |
| Main Entry: | different |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | miscellaneous, various |
Synonyms: |
anthologized, assorted, asymmetrical, collected, disparate, dissonant, divergent, divers, diverse, diversified, diversiform, heterogeneous, incongruous, inconsistent, indiscriminate, jarring, manifold, many, multifarious, multiform, numerous, omnifarious, omniform, several, some, sundry, varicolored, varied, variegated, varietal, variform |
Antonyms: |
normal, same, similar, standard, uniform |
| Main Entry: | frequent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | common, repeated |
Synonyms: |
a good many, commonplace, constant, continual, customary, everyday, expected, familiar, general, habitual, incessant, intermittent, iterated, manifold, many, monotonous, numberless, numerous, periodic, perpetual, persistent, pleonastic, profuse, recurrent, recurring, redundant, reiterated, reiterative, successive, thick, ubiquitous, usual, various |
Antonyms: |
inconstant, infrequent, irregular, occasional, rare, sporadic, uncommon, unrepeated, unusual |
| Main Entry: | hoi polloi |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | common people |
Synonyms: |
Middle America, common people, commonality, commoners, great unwashed, huddled masses, infrastructure, masses, multitude, plebians, proletariat, rabble, rank and file, riffraff, the common people, the herd, the many, the masses, the multitude, the proletariat, the working class, vulgus |
| Main Entry: | legion |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | numerous |
Synonyms: |
countless, many, multifarious, multitudinal, multitudinous, myriad, numberless, populous, several, sundry, various, very many, voluminous |
Antonyms: |
few, numbered |
| Main Entry: | miscellaneous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | diversified, various |
Synonyms: |
assorted, confused, conglomerate, different, disordered, disparate, divergent, divers, diverse, heterogeneous, indiscriminate, jumbled, many, mingled, mixed, motley, muddled, multifarious, multiform, odd, promiscuous, scattered, scrambled, sundry, unmatched, unsorted, varied, variegated |
Antonyms: |
alone, lone, simple, single, singular |
| Main Entry: | much |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | plenty |
Synonyms: |
a lot of, abundant, adequate, ample, complete, considerable, copious, countless, endless, enough, everywhere, extravagant, full, galore, generous, great, heaps, immeasurable, jam-packed, lavish, loads, lotsa, many, mega, mucho, no end, plenteous, plentiful, profuse, satisfying, scads, sizable, substantial, sufficient, very many, voluminous |
| Notes: | many means being one of a large indefinite number, while much means great in quantity, degree, or extent |
Antonyms: |
little |