| Main Entry: | mass |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | body of matter; considerable portion |
Synonyms: |
accumulation, aggregate, assemblage, band, batch, block, bulk, bunch, chunk, clot, coagulation, collection, combination, concretion, conglomeration, core, corpus, crowd, entirety, gob, great deal, greater part, group, heap, horde, host, hunk, knot, lion's share, load, lot, lump, majority, mob, mound, mountain, much, number, object, peck, piece, pile, plurality, preponderance, pyramid, quantity, shock, stack, staple, stockpile, sum, sum total, throng, totality, troop, volume, wad, whole |
| Main Entry: | mass |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bulk, measurement |
Synonyms: |
dimension, extent, greatness, magnitude, size, span, volume |
| Main Entry: | masses |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | public, crowd |
Synonyms: |
common people, commonalty, great unwashed, hoi polloi, lower class, mob, multitude, proletariat, rabble, rank and file, riffraff |
| Main Entry: | accumulate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | gather or amass something |
Synonyms: |
accrue, acquire, add to, agglomerate, aggregate, amalgamate, assemble, bring together, cache, clean up, collect, collocate, compile, concentrate, cumulate, draw together, expand, gain, gather, grow, heap, heap together, hoard, incorporate, increase, load up, lump*, make a bundle, make a killing, mass, pile up, pile*, procure, profit, rack up, roll up, round up, scare up, stack up, stockpile, store, store up, swell, unite |
Antonyms: |
disperse, dissipate, dwindle, lessen, lose, spend, squander, waste |
| Main Entry: | accumulation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gathering or amassing |
Synonyms: |
accession, accretion, addition, agglomeration, aggrandizement, aggregation, amassment, augmentation, build-up, chunk, collecting, collection, conglomeration, enlargement, gob, growth, heap, hoarding, hunk, increase, inflation, intensification, mass, multiplication, pile, quantity, stack, stock, store, trove, up, upping |
Antonyms: |
dispersal, dispersion, dissipation, scattering |
| Main Entry: | agglomeration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | collection |
Synonyms: |
cluster, heap, jumble, load, mass, pile |
| Main Entry: | aggregate |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | collection |
Synonyms: |
accumulation, agglomerate, agglomeration, all, amount, assemblage, body, bulk, combination, conglomerate, conglomeration, gross, heap, lump, mass, mixture, pile, quantity, sum, the works, total, totality, whole, whole ball of wax, whole enchilada, whole schmear, whole shooting match |
Antonyms: |
individual, one, part |
| Main Entry: | all |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | whole; totality |
Synonyms: |
accumulation, across the board, aggregate, aggregation, collection, ensemble, entirety, everyone, everything, gross, group, integer, jackpot, lock stock and barrel, mass, quantity, sum, sum total, total, unit, utmost, wall to wall, whole ball of wax, whole enchilada, whole nine yards, whole schmear, whole shooting match, whole show, works |
Antonyms: |
none, zero, zilch, zip |
| Main Entry: | amount |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | quantity |
Synonyms: |
aplenty, bags, bulk, bundle, chunk, expanse, extent, flock, gob, heap, hunk, jillion, load, lot, magnitude, mass, measure, mess*, mint, mucho, number, oodles*, pack, passel, peck, pile, scads, score, slat, slew, supply, ton, volume, whopper |
| Notes: | use 'amount' with things that cannot be counted but 'number' with things that can be counted number is regularly used with count nouns, while amount is mainly used with mass nouns: number of mistakes, amount of money |
| Main Entry: | anybody |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | one, some unspecified person or people |
Synonyms: |
a person, all, any of, any person, anyone, anyone at all, each and every one, everybody, everyone, masses, one, public, whole world |