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1 a considerable amount

that new sports car must have cost a real chunk of change

Synonyms for chunk

abundance,
barrel,
basketful,
boatload,
bucket,
bunch,
bundle,
bushel,
carload,
deal,
dozen,
fistful,
gobs,
good deal,
heap,
hundred,
lashings
(also lashins)
[chiefly British],
loads,
lot,
mass,
mess,
mountain,
much,
multiplicity,
myriad,
oodles,
pack,
passel,
peck,
pile,
plateful,
plenitude,
plentitude,
plenty,
pot,
potful,
profusion,
quantity,
raft,
reams,
scads,
sheaf,
shipload,
sight,
slew,
spate,
stack,
store,
ton,
truckload,
volume,
wad,
wealth,
yard

Words Related to chunk

epidemic,
plague,
rash

bonanza,
embarrassment,
excess,
overabundance,
overage,
overkill,
overmuch,
oversupply,
plethora,
redundancy,
superabundance,
superfluity,
surfeit,
surplus

deluge,
flood,
overflow

army,
bevy,
cram,
crowd,
crush,
drove,
flock,
herd,
horde,
host,
legion,
mob,
multitude,
press,
score,
sea,
swarm,
throng

gazillion,
jillion,
kazillion,
million,
thousands,
trillion,
zillion

Phrases Synonymous with chunk

all kinds (of),
quite a bit

Near Antonyms for chunk

atom,
crumb,
dot,
fleck,
flyspeck,
fragment,
grain,
granule,
iota,
jot,
modicum,
molecule,
mote,
nubbin,
particle,
ray,
scintilla,
scrap,
shred,
tittle,
whit

smatter,
smattering

dash,
drop,
morsel,
shot

piece,
portion,
section

absence,
dearth,
famine,
lack,
paucity,
poverty,
scarceness,
scarcity,
shortage,
undersupply,
want

deficiency,
deficit,
inadequacy,
insufficiency,
meagerness,
scantiness,
scantness,
skimpiness

Antonyms for chunk

ace,
bit,
dab,
dram,
driblet,
glimmer,
handful,
hint,
lick,
little,
mite,
mouthful,
nip,
ounce,
peanuts,
pinch,
pittance,
scruple,
shade,
shadow,
smidgen
(also smidgeon or smidgin or smidge),
speck,
spot,
sprinkle,
sprinkling,
strain,
streak,
suspicion,
tad,
taste,
touch,
trace

2 a small uneven mass

a little chunk of dirt

Synonyms for chunk

blob,
clod,
clot,
clump,
dollop,
glob,
gob,
gobbet,
hunk,
knob,
lump,
nub,
nubble,
nugget,
wad

Words Related to chunk

bead,
drop,
globule

block,
body,
bulk

particle,
piece,
portion

bit,
chip,
crumb,
granule,
morsel,
nubbin,
patch,
scrap

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