Dictionary Definition
much adj : (quantifier used with mass nouns)
great in quantity or degree or extent; "not much rain"; "much
affection"; "much grain is in storage" [syn: much(a)] [ant:
little(a)] n : a
great amount or extent; "they did much for humanity" adv
1 to a great degree or extent; "she's much better
now"
2 very; "he was much annoyed"
3 to a very great degree or extent; "we enjoyed
ourselves very much"; "she was very much interested"; "this would
help a great deal" [syn: a lot, a good
deal, a great
deal, very
much]
4 (degree adverb used before a noun phrase) for
all practical purposes but not completely; "much the same thing
happened every time" [syn: practically]
5 frequently or in great quantities; "I don't
drink much"; "I don't travel much" [syn: a great
deal, often]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /mʌʧ/, /mVtS/
- Rhymes: -ʌtʃ
Etymology
, compare mycel- A large amount of.
- I don't have much money.
Usage notes
- Much is used with uncountable nouns. The equivalent used with countable nouns is many.
Synonyms
- a great deal of, a lot of
Antonyms
Derived terms
Translations
a large amount of
- Albanian: shumë
- Catalan: molt
- Croatian: mnogo
- Czech: mnoho
- Danish: meget
- Dutch: veel
- Esperanto: multa
- Finnish: paljon
- French: beaucoup de
- German: viel
- Hindi: बहुत (bahut), अधिक (adhik)
- Hungarian: sok
- Icelandic: mikill
- Ido: multa
- Indonesian: banyak
- Italian: molto
- Javanese: okeh
- Nahuatl: açan
- Polish: dużo
- Portuguese: muito(s), muita(s), um monte de
- Romanian: mult
- Romansch: bler
- Russian: много
- Sanskrit: bahu, adhikam, ati
- Slovak: veľa
- Spanish: mucho
- Swedish: mycket
- Yiddish: אַ סך
Adverb
- To a great extent.
- I don't like fish much.
Translations
to a great extent
Extensive Definition
Much can refer to:
- Much, an English adverb, expression of quantity.
- MuchMusic, a cable network in Canada, and its domestic and international spin-offs.
- Much, Germany, a municipality in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
- Much (album), an album by Christian band Ten Shekel Shirt.
- Much the Miller's Son, one of Robin Hood's Merry Men from the earliest tales.
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
a deal, a great deal, a lot, abounding, abundance, abundant, abundantly, acres, affluence, affluent, again and again,
all-sufficing, ample,
ample sufficiency, ampleness, amplitude, aplenty, as all creation, as all
get-out, avalanche,
bags, barrel, barrels, bay, beaucoup, bonanza, bottomless, bounteous, bountiful, bountifulness, bountiousness, bumper
crop, bushel, cater to,
cocker, coddle, considerable, considerably, copious, copiousness, cosset, countless, countlessness, diffuse, effuse, eminently, epidemic, ever so, ever so
much, exceedingly,
exceptionally,
excess, exhaustless, extravagance, extravagant, extremely, exuberance, exuberant, fat, fertile, fertility, flood, flow, flush, foison, frequently, full, full measure, fullness, galore, generosity, generous, generousness, great
abundance, great deal, great plenty, greatly, gush, heap, highly, hugely, humor, in great measure, in
plenty, in quantity, indulge, inexhaustible, landslide, largely, lashings, lavish, lavishness, liberal, liberality, liberalness, load, lot, lots, lump, luxuriance, luxuriant, many, mass, maximal, maximum, mess, mollycoddle, more than
enough, mountain,
muchly, multiplicity, multitude, multitudinous, myriad, myriads, never so, no end, no
end of, not a little, notably, numerous, numerousness, ocean, oceans, oft, oftentimes, ofttimes, opulence, opulency, opulent, outpouring, over and over,
overage, overflow, overflowing, oversupply, pack, pamper, peck, pile, plenitude, plenitudinous, plenteous, plenteousness, plentiful, plentifulness, plenty, plethora, power, pretty much, prevailing, prevalence, prevalent, prodigal, prodigality, productive, productiveness, profuse, profuseness, profusion, profusive, quantities, quantity, rampant, repeatedly, replete, repleteness, repletion, rich, rich harvest, rich vein,
richness, rife, riot, riotous, riotousness, running over,
scads, sea, shower, sight, so, so very much, spate, spoil, stream, substantiality, substantialness,
superabundance,
superabundant,
superfluity,
surpassingly,
teeming, teemingness, to the skies,
tons, very much, volume, wealth, wealthy, well-found,
well-furnished, well-nigh, well-provided, well-stocked, wholesale, world, worlds