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
• damn
• really
• badly
• damned
• seriously
• greatly
• desperately
• that
• most
• severely
• intensely
• heavily
• especially
• particularly
• such
• full
• wildly
• real
• immensely
• super
• jolly
• extra
• fiercely
• exceptionally
• hugely
• awfully
• way
• exceeding
• absolutely
• exceedingly
• enormously
• mighty
• specially
• fantastically
• totally
• vitally
• good and
• vastly
• thoroughly
• remarkably
• awful
• supremely
• deeply
• passing
• uncommonly
• significantly
• fabulously
• frightfully
• completely
• eminently
• a lot
• ever
• sore
• entirely
• surpassingly
• achingly
• utterly
• bone
• roaring
• deadly
• mortally
• wicked
• archly
• sorely
• majorly
• considerably
• beastly
• positively
• rattling
• mightily
• dang
• cracking
• almighty
• thumping
• noticeably
• monstrous
• whacking
• roaringly
• colossally
• wholly
• fully
• blisteringly
• spanking
• substantially
• right
• filthy
• obviously
• stinking
• notably
• radically
• purely
• extensively
• visibly
• unco
• profoundly
• as all get-out
• downright
• corking
• markedly
• appreciably
• abundantly
• altogether
• discernibly
• palpably
• excessively
• plentifully
• flat-out
• 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
• regularly
• over and over
• ofttimes
• again
• again and again
• hourly
• a lot
• consistently
• continuously
• commonly
• usually
• ordinarily
• unceasingly
• routinely
• generally
• 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
• hundred
• all kinds (of)
• volume
• myriad
• boatload
• gobs
• good deal
• heap
• bucket
• truckload
• oodles
• mess
• profusion
• yard
• plenitude
• pack
• carload
• multiplicity
• reams
• mass
• peck
• mountain
• bushel
• pot
• store
• wad
• fistful
• scads
• shipload
• sight
• sheaf
• thousands
• barrel
• basketful
• plentitude
• plateful
• lashings
• potful
• spate
• excess
• lashins
• score
• flood
• surplus
• overmuch
• overabundance
• passel
• plague
• rash
• plethora
• surfeit
• embarrassment
• overkill
• sea
• multitude
• superabundance
• epidemic
• million
• crowd
• overage
• host
• bonanza
• superfluity
• oversupply
• overflow
• redundancy
• deluge
• cram
• swarm
• press
• drove
• army
• horde
• throng
• bevy
• flock
• legion
• zillion
• crush
• 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
• smidge
• smidgeon
• tittle
• section
• granule
• crumb
• lack
• portion
• smattering
• piece
• smidgin
• 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

Examples of much in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Adjective

There’s a lot of kitchen-table discussion, maybe too much of it, of all that went on before. —Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 11 Oct. 2024

Travel experts want to make Sardinia’s tourism more sustainable Sardinia is marketed as a sea and sun summer destination, which not only means beach regulations have become necessary but also that much of the island’s ‘out-of-season’ potential is overlooked. —Rebecca Ann Hughes, Fortune Europe, 11 Oct. 2024

Adverb

If given a second term, the Republican and his allies are preparing to go much further, reimagining the military as an all-powerful tool to deploy on U.S. soil. —Jason Ma, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2024

Potting soil tends to dry out much faster than garden soil, and raised containers dry out faster than plants in the ground. —Janet B. Carson, arkansasonline.com, 13 Oct. 2024

Noun

Phrases Containing much

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