Synonyms of much

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adjective

ˈməch 

as in significant

having great meaning or lasting effect

actually, nothing much changed

Synonyms & Similar Words

• significant
• important
• major
• big
• historic
• substantial
• meaningful
• eventful
• exceptional
• momentous
• monumental
• tectonic
• distinguished
• consequential
• remarkable
• material
• earthshaking
• serious
• weighty
• valuable
• pivotal
• worthy
• great
• earth-shattering
• outstanding
• noteworthy
• notable
• decisive
• prominent
• distinctive
• crucial
• seminal
• impressive
• strategic
• worthwhile
• earnest
• sincere
• fatal
• fateful
• central
• famous
• essential
• critical
• heavy
• grave
• key
• illustrious
• eminent
• vital
• all-important
• notorious
• prestigious
• renowned
• noble
• preeminent

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• little
• small
• slight
• trivial
• minor
• insignificant
• unimportant
• negligible
• inconsiderable
• trifling
• inconsequential
• worthless
• petty
• paltry
• unknown
• obscure
• anonymous
• nameless
• uncelebrated

much

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adverb

1

as in very

to a great degree

much gratified by the favorable response to her novel

Synonyms & Similar Words

• very
• extremely
• terribly
• too
• incredibly
• far
• highly
• so
• really
• damn
• badly
• damned
• seriously
• desperately
• greatly
• most
• that
• severely
• heavily
• intensely
• especially
• particularly
• such
• full
• wildly
• real
• immensely
• super
• jolly
• extra
• fiercely
• exceptionally
• way
• awfully
• hugely
• absolutely
• exceedingly
• enormously
• mighty
• specially
• fantastically
• totally
• vitally
• good and
• vastly
• thoroughly
• remarkably
• supremely
• awful
• deeply
• passing
• uncommonly
• significantly
• frightfully
• fabulously
• eminently
• a lot
• completely
• ever
• sore
• entirely
• surpassingly
• achingly
• bone
• utterly
• roaring
• deadly
• mortally
• archly
• wicked
• sorely
• colossally
• majorly
• beastly
• rattling
• considerably
• positively
• mightily
• dang
• cracking
• almighty
• thumping
• noticeably
• monstrous
• whacking
• roaringly
• wholly
• blisteringly
• fully
• spanking
• corking
• substantially
• right
• filthy
• obviously
• stinking
• notably
• radically
• purely
• visibly
• extensively
• unco
• profoundly
• as all get-out
• downright
• markedly
• appreciably
• abundantly
• altogether
• discernibly
• palpably
• excessively
• flat-out
• plentifully
• overmuch
• plainly
• monumentally
• obscenely
• amazingly
• astronomically
• astonishingly
• staggeringly
• monstrously
• grandly

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• little
• somewhat
• slightly
• nominally
• negligibly
• just
• hardly
• scarcely
• barely
• marginally
• minimally
• meagerly
• scantily

2

as in highly

to a large extent or degree

the new decorations made me much happier

Synonyms & Similar Words

• highly
• considerably
• greatly
• significantly
• extensively
• utterly
• broadly
• tremendously
• largely
• massively
• noticeably
• hugely
• enormously
• vastly
• a lot
• staggeringly
• monumentally
• stupendously
• sizably
• astronomically
• big-time
• no end
• appreciably
• monstrously
• colossally
• by half
• abundantly
• plentifully
• copiously
• amply
• healthily

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• little
• slightly
• nominally
• modestly
• negligibly
• hardly
• scarcely
• just
• barely
• minutely
• minimally
• imperceptibly
• microscopically
• fractionally
• insignificantly
• infinitesimally
• invisibly

3

as in almost

very close to but not completely

today the old neighborhood looks much as it did years ago

Synonyms & Similar Words

• almost
• nearly
• practically
• about
• most
• fairly
• virtually
• pretty much
• somewhere
• just about
• mostly
• more or less
• fair
• as good as
• somewhat
• nigh
• largely
• mainly
• near
• all but
• appreciably
• well-nigh
• next to
• feckly
• chiefly
• within an inch of
• borderline
• partly
• partially
• by and large
• kind of

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• quite
• entirely
• fully
• completely
• thoroughly
• absolutely
• well
• altogether
• wholly
• totally
• plain
• utterly
• hardly
• scarcely
• barely
• plumb

4

as in often

many times

I don't do that much anymore

Synonyms & Similar Words

• often
• frequently
• constantly
• repeatedly
• always
• continually
• oftentimes
• time after time
• time and again
• oft
• over and over
• regularly
• again and again
• again
• hourly
• a lot
• usually
• consistently
• commonly
• continuously
• ordinarily
• generally
• unceasingly
• routinely
• anew
• uninterruptedly
• night and day
• habitually
• perpetually
• continuingly
• afresh
• intermittently
• periodically
• recurrently

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• little
• rarely
• seldom
• now
• sometimes
• infrequently
• never
• occasionally
• once
• now and then
• sporadically
• ne'er

5

as in about

close to but not exactly

he behaves much the same as I did at that age

Synonyms & Similar Words

• about
• approximately
• roughly
• around
• some
• say
• nearly
• like
• more or less
• somewhere about
• somewhere around
• plus or minus
• generally
• near
• after a fashion
• loosely
• practically
• virtually
• nominally
• kind of
• well-nigh

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• exactly
• precisely
• even
• just
• due
• sharp
• squarely
• smack-dab

much

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noun

as in plenty

a considerable amount

much of what people think they know about words is inaccurate or downright false

Synonyms & Similar Words

• plenty
• ton
• loads
• lot
• dozen
• slew
• deal
• bunch
• wealth
• chunk
• quantity
• pile
• abundance
• bundle
• raft
• stack
• quite a bit
• all kinds (of)
• hundred
• volume
• myriad
• boatload
• gobs
• good deal
• heap
• bucket
• truckload
• pack
• oodles
• profusion
• mess
• yard
• plenitude
• carload
• multiplicity
• reams
• mass
• peck
• mountain
• bushel
• pot
• store
• wad
• fistful
• scads
• shipload
• sight
• sheaf
• thousands
• barrel
• basketful
• plentitude
• plateful
• lashings
• potful
• spate
• excess
• score
• flood
• surplus
• overmuch
• overabundance
• plague
• passel
• rash
• plethora
• surfeit
• embarrassment
• overkill
• sea
• multitude
• superabundance
• epidemic
• crowd
• million
• overage
• host
• bonanza
• superfluity
• overflow
• oversupply
• redundancy
• deluge
• cram
• swarm
• press
• drove
• army
• horde
• throng
• bevy
• flock
• legion
• crush
• zillion
• herd
• mob
• gazillion
• trillion
• jillion
• kazillion

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• bit
• taste
• touch
• tad
• handful
• hint
• ounce
• strain
• suspicion
• spot
• mite
• shade
• mouthful
• glimmer
• peanuts
• pittance
• speck
• grain
• sprinkling
• shadow
• trace
• pinch
• modicum
• little
• iota
• whit
• particle
• ray
• fragment
• streak
• molecule
• sprinkle
• scruple
• lick
• atom
• ace
• dram
• scrap
• dab
• shred
• jot
• dot
• smidgen
• mote
• scintilla
• nip
• tittle
• section
• granule
• crumb
• lack
• portion
• smattering
• piece
• drop
• absence
• dash
• morsel
• shot
• shortage
• paucity
• driblet
• fleck
• scarcity
• want
• poverty
• flyspeck
• nubbin
• dearth
• smatter
• deficiency
• famine
• deficit
• insufficiency
• inadequacy
• scarceness
• meagerness
• scantiness
• undersupply
• skimpiness
• scantness

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of much

Adjective

Waxhaw’s eventual rules could address how far data centers must sit from homes, schools and other properties; how much buffering and tree preservation would be required; and whether developers must submit noise, lighting and utility-impact studies. — Nora O'Neill, Charlotte Observer, 4 Aug. 2026

My mother, Kath, has said that’s why nobody heard much about it when my great-great-grandmother Fanny Mounsey died for the first time in a shipwreck in 1914. — Claire Carusillo, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026

Adverb

This structural optimization increases thermal efficiency, allowing the system to extract much more cooling capacity per unit mass. — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 6 Aug. 2026

North America, by contrast, delivers 59% of revenue despite a much smaller slice of the user base. — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 6 Aug. 2026

Noun

With Aoki cruising, the offense didn’t have to do much, but the Trojans built momentum as the game progressed. — Shotgun Spratling, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2025

Daniels couldn’t do much, but tried to provide a comforting voice. — Andy Wacker, Outside Online, 18 May 2025

Phrases Containing much

• a bit much
• make much of
• much as
• much less
• much of a muchness
• pretty much
• too much