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| Main Entry: |
amount
 [uh-mount] 
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| 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: | 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mountain |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | very large hill |
| Synonyms: | abundance, alp, bank, bluff, butte, cliff, crag, dome, drift, elevation, eminence, glob, heap, height, hump, mass, mesa, mound, mount, palisade, peak, pike, pile, precipice, pyramid, range, ridge, shock, sierra, stack, ton, tor, volcano |
| Antonyms: | crevasse, valley |
Example Sentences
- The problem is that both books contain an article's worth of ideas and a ton of padding.
- Can you imagine having to vault three quarters of a ton upwards from underneath the vehicle into a confined engine compartment.
- What resulted was a tennis game that's a ton of fun, overall.
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | scads |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | large quantity, |
| Synonyms: | bags, barrels, bunches, bundles, gobs, heaps, jillion, large number, loads, lots, many and then some, oodles*, piles, plenty, scores, stacks, tons, zillions |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lots |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | great quantity |
| Synonyms: | acres, galore, gobs, legion, legions, loads, many, oodles, plenty, realty, reams, scads, slathers, slew, tons, wad |
| Antonyms: | little |
| Main Entry: | jillion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | heap |
| 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, multiplicity, ocean, oodles*, plenty, pot, profusion, quantity, ream, scad, stack, stock, stockpile, store, sum, thousand, ton, total*, trillion, volume, whole |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | million |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | heap |
| 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, jillion, jumble, load, lot, lots, lump, mass, mint, mound, mountain*, much, multiplicity, ocean, oodles*, plenty, pot, profusion, quantity, ream, scad, stack, stock, stockpile, store, sum, thousand, ton, total*, trillion, volume, whole |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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