Much

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Much \Much\ (m[u^]ch), a. [Compar. & superl. wanting, but
     supplied by {More} (m[=o]r), and {Most} (m[=o]st), from
     another root.] [OE. moche, muche, miche, prob. the same as
     mochel, muchel, michel, mikel, fr. AS. micel, mycel; cf. Gr.
     me`gas, fem. mega`lh, great, and Icel. mj["o]k, adv., much.
     [root]103. See {Mickle}.]


     1. Great in quantity; long in duration; as, much rain has
        fallen; much time.
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              Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and
              shalt gather but little in.           --Deut.
                                                    xxviii. 38.
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     2. Many in number. [Archaic]
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              Edom came out against him with much people. --Num.
                                                    xx. 20.
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     3. High in rank or position. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Much \Much\, n.
     1. A great quantity; a great deal; also, an indefinite
        quantity; as, you have as much as I.
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              He that gathered much had nothing over. --Ex. xvi.
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     Note: Muchin this sense can be regarded as an adjective
           qualifying a word unexpressed, and may, therefore, be
           modified by as, so, too, very.
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     2. A thing uncommon, wonderful, or noticeable; something
        considerable.
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              And [he] thought not much to clothe his enemies.
                                                    --Milton.
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     {To make much of}, to treat as something of especial value or
        worth.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Much \Much\, adv. [Cf. Icel. mj["o]k. See {Much}, a.]
     To a great degree or extent; greatly; abundantly; far;
     nearly. "Much suffering heroes." --Pope.
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           Thou art much mightier than we.          --Gen. xxvi.
                                                    16.
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           Excellent speech becometh not a fool, much less do
           lying lips a prince.                     --Prov. xvii.
                                                    7.
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           Henceforth I fly not death, nor would prolong
           Life much.                               --Milton.
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           All left the world much as they found it. --Sir W.
                                                    Temple.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  much
       adj : (quantifier used with mass nouns) great in quantity or
             degree or extent; "not much rain"; "much affection";
             "much grain is in storage" [syn: {much(a)}] [ant: {little(a)}]
       n : a great amount or extent; "they did much for humanity"
       adv 1: to a great degree or extent; "she's much better now"
       2: very; "he was much annoyed"
       3: to a very great degree or extent; "we enjoyed ourselves very
          much"; "she was very much interested"; "this would help a
          great deal" [syn: {a lot}, {a good deal}, {a great deal},
          {very much}]
       4: (degree adverb used before a noun phrase) for all practical
          purposes but not completely; "much the same thing happened
          every time" [syn: {practically}]
       5: frequently or in great quantities; "I don't drink much"; "I
          don't travel much" [syn: {a great deal}, {often}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  208 Moby Thesaurus words for "much":
     a deal, a great deal, a lot, abounding, abundance, abundant,
     abundantly, acres, affluence, affluent, again and again,
     all-sufficing, ample, ample sufficiency, ampleness, amplitude,
     aplenty, as all creation, as all get-out, avalanche, bags, barrel,
     barrels, bay, beaucoup, bonanza, bottomless, bounteous, bountiful,
     bountifulness, bountiousness, bumper crop, bushel, cater to,
     cocker, coddle, considerable, considerably, copious, copiousness,
     cosset, countless, countlessness, diffuse, effuse, eminently,
     epidemic, ever so, ever so much, exceedingly, exceptionally,
     excess, exhaustless, extravagance, extravagant, extremely,
     exuberance, exuberant, fat, fertile, fertility, flood, flow, flush,
     foison, frequently, full, full measure, fullness, galore,
     generosity, generous, generousness, great abundance, great deal,
     great plenty, greatly, gush, heap, highly, hugely, humor,
     in great measure, in plenty, in quantity, indulge, inexhaustible,
     landslide, largely, lashings, lavish, lavishness, liberal,
     liberality, liberalness, load, lot, lots, lump, luxuriance,
     luxuriant, many, mass, maximal, maximum, mess, mollycoddle,
     more than enough, mountain, muchly, multiplicity, multitude,
     multitudinous, myriad, myriads, never so, no end, no end of,
     not a little, notably, numerous, numerousness, ocean, oceans, oft,
     oftentimes, ofttimes, opulence, opulency, opulent, outpouring,
     over and over, overage, overflow, overflowing, oversupply, pack,
     pamper, peck, pile, plenitude, plenitudinous, plenteous,
     plenteousness, plentiful, plentifulness, plenty, plethora, power,
     pretty much, prevailing, prevalence, prevalent, prodigal,
     prodigality, productive, productiveness, profuse, profuseness,
     profusion, profusive, quantities, quantity, rampant, repeatedly,
     replete, repleteness, repletion, rich, rich harvest, rich vein,
     richness, rife, riot, riotous, riotousness, running over, scads,
     sea, shower, sight, so, so very much, spate, spoil, stream,
     substantiality, substantialness, superabundance, superabundant,
     superfluity, surpassingly, teeming, teemingness, to the skies,
     tons, very much, volume, wealth, wealthy, well-found,
     well-furnished, well-nigh, well-provided, well-stocked, wholesale,
     world, worlds