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| Main Entry: | many |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | profuse, abundant |
| Synonyms: | abounding, bountiful, copious, countless, crowded, frequent, innumerable, legion, manifold, multifarious, multiplied, multitudinous, myriad, numberless, numerous, plentiful, populous, prevalent, rife, several, sundry, teeming, umpteen, uncounted, varied, various, alive with, bounteous, divers, lousy with, multifold, no end of |
| 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: | horde, mass, multitude, oodles*, plenty, scads*, throng, umpteen, gobs, heaps, jillion, large numbers, piles, scores, thousands, tons, whole slew |
| Antonyms: | few |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | countless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | innumerable |
| Synonyms: | endless, heap*, immeasurable, incalculable, infinite, legion, limitless, many, mess*, mint*, multitudinous, myriad, numberless, oodles*, peck, pile, raft*, scads*, stack*, umpteen, uncounted, untold, wad*, bags of, gobs, innumerous, jillion, loads, lots of, measureless, mucho, passel of, slew, tidy sum, uncountable, whole slew, zillion |
| Antonyms: | calculable, limited, measurable, numbered, countable, counted, numerable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | frequent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | common, repeated |
| Synonyms: | commonplace, constant, continual, customary, everyday, expected, familiar, general, habitual, incessant, intermittent, manifold, many, monotonous, numberless, numerous, periodic, perpetual, persistent, profuse, recurrent, redundant, successive, thick, ubiquitous, usual, various, a good many, iterated, pleonastic, recurring, reiterated, reiterative |
| Antonyms: | inconstant, infrequent, irregular, occasional, rare, sporadic, uncommon, unusual, unrepeated |
| Main Entry: | hoi polloi |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | common people |
| Synonyms: | Middle America, common people, infrastructure, masses, multitude, proletariat, rabble, rank and file, riffraff, commonality, commoners, great unwashed, huddled masses, plebians, 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, multitudinous, myriad, numberless, populous, several, sundry, various, voluminous, multitudinal, very many |
| Antonyms: | few, numbered |
| Main Entry: | miscellaneous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | diversified, various |
| Synonyms: | assorted, confused, conglomerate, different, disordered, disparate, divergent, diverse, heterogeneous, indiscriminate, jumbled, many, mixed, motley, muddled, multifarious, odd, promiscuous, scattered, sundry, unmatched, varied, variegated, divers, mingled, multiform, scrambled, unsorted |
| Antonyms: | alone, lone, simple, single, singular |
| Main Entry: | much |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | plenty |
| Synonyms: | abundant, adequate, ample, complete, considerable, copious, countless, endless, enough, everywhere, extravagant, full, galore, generous, great, immeasurable, lavish, many, plentiful, profuse, satisfying, scads*, sizable, substantial, sufficient, voluminous, a lot of, heaps, jam-packed, loads, lotsa, mega, mucho, no end, plenteous, very many |
| Antonyms: | little |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | multifarious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | diverse |
| Synonyms: | assorted, manifold, many, miscellaneous, multiple, multitudinous, myriad, numerous, varied, various, divers, diversified |
| Antonyms: | homogenous |
| Main Entry: | multiple/multifarious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | diversified, |
| Synonyms: | collective, conglomerate, different, diverse, heterogeneous, indiscriminate, legion, manifold, many, mixed, motley, multitudinous, numerous, populous, several, sundry, varied, variegated, various, voluminous, diversiform, miscellaneous assorted, multiform, multiplex, multitudinal |
| Antonyms: | single, singular, unvaried |
| Main Entry: | numberless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | infinite |
| Synonyms: | countless, endless, incalculable, innumerable, many, multitudinous, myriad, numerous, umpteen, uncounted, untold, heaps, jillion, no end of, no end to, uncountable, unnumbered, zillion |
| Antonyms: | finite, limited, numbered, counted |
| Main Entry: | oodles |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | a lot |
| Synonyms: | abundance, lots, many, masses, plenty, scads*, billions, gobs, heaps, large number, loads, millions, piles, thousands, tons, zillions |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | plethora |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | excess |
| Synonyms: | deluge, flood, glut, many, much, overabundance, overflow, plenty, profusion, superabundance, superfluity, surfeit, surplus, overkill, overmuch |
| Antonyms: | few, lack, little, need, rarity, scarcity, want |
| Main Entry: | plural |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | more than one |
| Synonyms: | dual, many, multiple, numerous, not alone, not singular |
| Main Entry: | populous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | packed with inhabitants |
| Synonyms: | crawling, crowded, dense, jammed, legion, many, multifarious, multitudinous, numerous, occupied, settled, several, teeming, thick, various, voluminous, heavily populated, multitudinal, overpopulated, peopled, populated, swarming, thronged |
| Antonyms: | deserted |
| Main Entry: | rife |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | overflowing |
| Synonyms: | abounding, abundant, alive, common, current, epidemic, extensive, frequent, general, many, multitudinous, numerous, plentiful, popular, prevailing, prevalent, profuse, raging, rampant, regnant, replete, ruling, teeming, ubiquitous, universal, widespread, pandemic, swarming, thronged |
| Antonyms: | low, scarce |
| Main Entry: | several |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | assorted, various |
| Synonyms: | any, certain, considerable, definite, different, disparate, distinct, diverse, handful, indefinite, individual, infrequent, manifold, many, numerous, particular, personal, plural, proportionate, rare, respective, scanty, scarce, separate, single, some, sparse, special, specific, sundry, a few, a lot, divers, hardly any, not many, only a few, quite a few, scant, scarcely any, small number |
| Antonyms: | individual, none, one, single |
| Main Entry: | sundry |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | miscellaneous |
| Synonyms: | assorted, different, manifold, many, several, some, varied, various, divers, quite a few |
| Antonyms: | dissimilar, individual, single, singular |
| Main Entry: | untold |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very many; enormous |
| Synonyms: | countless, gigantic, hidden, huge, immense, incalculable, indescribable, innumerable, mammoth, manifold, many, mighty, monstrous, multiple, multitudinous, myriad, numberless, private, prodigious, staggering, titanic, uncounted, unexpressed, unimaginable, unknown, unspeakable, unthinkable, vast, beyond measure, inexpressible, innumerous, measureless, suppressed, uncountable, undreamed of, unnumberable, unnumbered |
| Antonyms: | few, little, small, tiny |
| Main Entry: | various |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | miscellaneous, differing |
| Synonyms: | assorted, changeable, changing, different, discrete, disparate, distinct, distinctive, diverse, heterogeneous, individual, legion, manifold, many, multifarious, multitudinous, numerous, peculiar, populous, separate, several, sundry, unequal, unlike, variant, varied, variegated, all manner of, diversified, many-sided, multitudinal, omnifarious, unalike |
| Antonyms: | individual, same, similar, uniform |
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