| Main Entry: | much |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | a great deal |
Synonyms: |
a lot, abundance, all kinds of, amplitude, appreciable amount, barrel, breadth, completeness, copiousness, excess, exuberance, fullness, gobs, great quantity, heaps, loads, lots*, lump, mass, mess*, mountain, multiplicity, oodles*, overage, oversupply, pack, peck, pile, plentifulness, plenty, plethora, profuseness, riches, scads, sufficiency, superabundance, superfluity, thousands, tons, very much, volume, wealth |
| Notes: | many means being one of a large indefinite number, while much means great in quantity, degree, or extent |
Antonyms: |
little |
| Main Entry: | heap |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pile, accumulation |
Synonyms: |
a lot, abundance, agglomeration, aggregation, amassment, assemblage, bank, batch, bulk, bunch, bundle, cargo, clump, cluster, collection, concentration, congeries, deposit, fullness, gathering, gobs, great deal, harvest, haul, hill, hoard, jumble, load, lot, lots, lump, mass, million, mint, mound, mountain, much, ocean, oodles*, plenty, pot, profusion, quantity, scad, stack, stock, stockpile, store, sum, thousand, ton, total, trillion, volume, whole |
Antonyms: |
bit |
| Main Entry: | lot |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | quantity, often large |
Synonyms: |
abundance, aggregate, aggregation, amplitude, assortment, barrel, batch, body, bunch, bundle, circle, clump, cluster, clutch, collection, conglomerate, conglomeration, consignment, crowd, great deal, group, heap, load, mass, mess*, much, multiplicity, number, ocean, oodles, order, pack, pile, plenitude, plenty, push, reams, requisition, scores, set, stack, stacks |
Antonyms: |
little |
| Main Entry: | lump |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | clump, mass |
Synonyms: |
agglomeration, ball, bit, block, bulge, bulk, bump, bunch, cake, chip, chunk, cluster, crumb, dab, gob, group, growth, handful, hunk, knot, knurl, lot, morsel, mountain, much, nugget, part, peck, piece, pile, portion, protrusion, protuberance, scrap, section, solid, spot, swelling, tumescence, tumor, wad, wedge |
| 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: | multitude |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | large group |
Synonyms: |
aggregation, army, assemblage, assembly, collection, commonalty, concourse, congregation, crowd, crush, drove, great number, heap, herd, horde, host, infinitude, infinity, jam*, legion, loads, lot, lots*, majority, mass, mob, much, myriad, number, numbers, ocean*, oodles*, people, plenitude, plurality, populace, proletariat, public, push*, quantity, scores, sea, slew, swarm, throng, turnout |
Antonyms: |
handful, portion, single, zero |
| Main Entry: | pack |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | group, bunch |
Synonyms: |
assemblage, band, barrel, bundle, circle, collection, company, crew, crowd, deck, drove, flock, gang, great deal, heap, herd, horde, lot, lump, mess, mob, much, multiplicity, number, peck, pile, press, set, swarm, throng, troop |
| Main Entry: | pile |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | heap, collection |
Synonyms: |
accumulation, aggregate, aggregation, amassment, assemblage, assortment, bank, barrel, buildup, chunk, conglomeration, drift, gob, great deal, hill, hoard, hunk, jumble, lump, mass, mound, mountain, much, ocean, oodles*, pack, peck, pyramid, quantity, shock, stack, stockpile |
Antonyms: |
ditch, hole |
| Main Entry: | plethora |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | excess |
Synonyms: |
deluge, flood, glut, many, much, overabundance, overflow, overkill, overmuch, plenty, profusion, superabundance, superfluity, surfeit, surplus |
| Notes: | plethora is too many of a good or bad thing and surfeit is too much of a good thing |
Antonyms: |
few, lack, little, need, rarity, scarcity, want |
| Main Entry: | gob |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lump |
Synonyms: |
agglomeration, ball, bit, block, bulge, bulk, bump, bunch, cake, chip, chunk, clod, clump, cluster, crumb, dab, group, growth, handful, hunch, hunk, knot, knurl, lot, morsel, mountain, much, nugget, part, peck, piece, pile, portion, protrusion, protuberan |