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| Main Entry: | |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | barrage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | profusion of something |
| Synonyms: | assault, attack, blast, bombardment, burst, deluge, hail, mass, onslaught, plethora, rain, shower, storm, stream, surge, torrent |
| Main Entry: | block |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | obstruction |
| Synonyms: | bar, barrier, blank wall, blockage, chunk, clog, hindrance, impediment, jam, mass, obstacle, obstruction, roadblock, snag, stop, stoppage, wall |
| Notes: | a bloc is a group of countries in special alliance while a block is an obstruction, an interruption, or a rectangular area or shape |
| Antonyms: | opening |
| Main Entry: | body |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bulk; central portion |
| Synonyms: | assembly, basis, bed, box, chassis, core, corpus, crux, essence, frame, fuselage, gist, gravamen, groundwork, hull, main part, majority, mass, material, matter, pith, skeleton, staple, substance, substructure, sum, tenor, total, trunk, whole |
| Antonyms: | nothing, nothingness |
| Main Entry: | body |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | crowd |
| Synonyms: | array, batch, bunch, bundle, clump, cluster, group, horde, lot, majority, mass, mob, multitude, parcel, party, set, society, throng |
| Antonyms: | individual, one |
| Main Entry: | buildup |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | development; accumulation |
| Synonyms: | accretion, advertising, enlargement, escalation, expansion, gain, growth, heap, hype, increase, load, mass, plug, promotion, publicity, puff, stack, stockpile, store |
| Antonyms: | decrease, destruction, reduction |
| Main Entry: | bulk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | size, largeness |
| Synonyms: | aggregate, amount, amplitude, bigness, dimensions, extent, immensity, magnitude, mass, massiveness, quantity, quantum, substance, total, totality, volume, weight |
| Main Entry: | bulk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | main part, most |
| Synonyms: | best part, better part, biggest share, body, generality, greater number, greater part, gross, lion's share, major part, majority, mass, nearly all, plurality, predominant part, preponderance, principal part |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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