Synonyms of bushels

bushels

noun

plural of bushel

as in tons

a considerable amount

picked up a bushel of decorations at the after-Christmas sale

Synonyms & Similar Words

• tons
• loads
• dozens
• piles
• hundreds
• bunches
• chunks
• quantities
• lots
• bundles
• slews
• rafts
• stacks
• deals
• carloads
• barrels
• yards
• truckloads
• buckets
• plenties
• wealths
• shiploads
• pecks
• masses
• sheaves
• fistfuls
• abundances
• reams
• myriads
• volumes
• boatloads
• basketfuls
• heaps
• gobs
• pots
• wads
• scads
• oodles
• all kinds (of)
• mountains
• platefuls
• quite a bit
• lashings
• stores
• packs
• good deals
• profusions
• multiplicities
• potfuls
• sights
• much
• thousands
• messes
• scores
• millions
• floods
• surpluses
• spates
• plenitudes
• passels
• plentitudes
• multitudes
• seas
• rashes
• epidemics
• plagues
• hordes
• trillions
• excesses
• superfluities
• flocks
• overages
• swarms
• bonanzas
• oversupplies
• throngs
• embarrassments
• overflows
• armies
• deluges
• zillions
• legions
• herds
• hosts
• surfeits
• redundancies
• crowds
• overmuch
• crushes
• presses
• mobs
• overabundances
• droves
• plethoras
• superabundances
• overkills
• gazillions
• jillions
• bevies
• kazillions
• crams

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• ounces
• grains
• peanuts
• handfuls
• bits
• shadows
• shades
• atoms
• fragments
• drams
• molecules
• spots
• strains
• granules
• particles
• specks
• rays
• mites
• mouthfuls
• tastes
• suspicions
• scraps
• dots
• scruples
• hints
• streaks
• touches
• flecks
• licks
• pinches
• crumbs
• traces
• nips
• aces
• sprinkles
• motes
• shreds
• glimmers
• dabs
• pittances
• driblets
• pieces
• smidgens
• sections
• portions
• dashes
• sprinklings
• drops
• little
• nubbins
• whits
• shots
• morsels
• iotas
• flyspecks
• jots
• scintillas
• shortages
• tittles
• modicums
• lacks
• smatterings
• absences
• wants
• deficiencies
• smatters
• deficits
• famines
• scarcities
• inadequacies
• insufficiencies
• dearths
• poverties
• undersupplies
• paucities

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of bushels

The tradition began in 2010 when Jesús Navas received several bushels of tomatoes for his part in Spain’s victory, per ESPN. — Anna Lazarus Caplan, PEOPLE, 23 July 2026

South India is the scent of frangipani and coffee, bushels of bananas and coconuts, women with gold nose rings and hair braided with jasmine and mustachioed men in pink with hands on hips. — Chandrahas Choudhury, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 July 2026

But a farmer harvesting 150 bushels of corn per year from a field must replenish the nutrients to grow corn again the next year. — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 1 June 2026

Because one out of every four bushels of wheat grown in this country is shipped to Russia, such an embargo would have a devastating effect on the wheat farmers in this country, and Boone County, among others, would suffer the consequences. — Peter Hessler, New Yorker, 31 May 2026

Williams saw close to 100 bushels of wheat per acre irrigated last year, but this year might only have 30 to 40. — ABC News, 20 May 2026

At the time of the explosion, the elevator was reportedly half full of 40,000 to 50,000 bushels of millet, wheat and milo — offering a glimpse of the scale of operations there. — Marissa Luck, Houston Chronicle, 17 Mar. 2026

Harvests can exceed hundreds of thousands of bushels, generating millions in revenue, according to surveys and reports. — Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 11 Mar. 2026

There has always been a bunch of tepid hitting, and bouncing off with no wrapping up, leading to bushels of gash plays. — Kenny Rosarion, Sun Sentinel, 5 Jan. 2026