| Main Entry: | oodles |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | a lot |
Synonyms: |
abundance, billions, gobs, heaps, large number, loads, lots, many, masses, millions, piles, plenty, scads, thousands, tons, zillions |
| 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: | bunch |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | collection of something |
Synonyms: |
agglomeration, assemblage, assortment, band, batch, bevy, blob, bouquet, bundle, caboodle, chunk, clump, cluster, covey, crew, crowd, fascicle, flock, galaxy, gang, gathering, group, heap, host, hunk, knot, lot, mass, mess, mob, multitude, number, oodles*, pack, parcel, party, passel, pile, quantity, sheaf, shebang, shock, shooting match, spray, stack, swarm, team, thicket, troop, tuft |
Antonyms: |
individual, one |
| 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: | 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: | 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 |
Antonyms: |
little |
| 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: | myriad |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | a lot |
Synonyms: |
army, flood, heap, horde, host, loads, mint, mountain*, multitude, oodles*, scores, slew, stacks, swarm, thousands |
Antonyms: |
little |
| 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 |
