[
US
/ˈmətʃ/
]
[ UK /mˈʌtʃ/ ]
[ UK /mˈʌtʃ/ ]
ADVERB
-
to a very great degree or extent
this would help a great deal
she was very much interested
I feel a lot better
we enjoyed ourselves very much -
to a great degree or extent
she's much better now -
(degree adverb used before a noun phrase) for all practical purposes but not completely
much the same thing happened every time
practically everything in Hinduism is the manifestation of a god -
frequently or in great quantities
I don't drink much
I don't travel much -
very
he was much annoyed
NOUN
-
a great amount or extent
they did much for humanity
ADJECTIVE
-
(quantifier used with mass nouns) great in quantity or degree or extent
much grain is in storage
not much rain
much affection
How To Use much In A Sentence
- Mix together with as few stirs as possible - mixing too much will make the muffins too dense and heavy. The Sun
- Secondly, he makes the team too much money, raking in ticket and merchandise sales like crazy.
- It bothered me a little that I didn't have a pickup, and I couldn't see doing much off road driving with my Mustang fastback.
- Petanque may be the only sport inspired by a disability - that of Jules LeNoir, who in 1910 was a dedicated player of boules, a French game much like bocce ball.
- The Temple to the Hebrew God YHVH, built by King David, was destroyed and much of the Jewish population (Jew comes from the word Judah, one of the 12 tribes) were deported to Babylon, known to Jews as the Babylonian captivity. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
- Having drop-dead gorgeous, private, windowed offices makes it a lot easier to recruit the kinds of superstars that produce ten times as much as the merely brilliant software developers.
- There is so much to enjoy here that it is a pity that a good deal of the information imparted is demonstrably wrong. The Times Literary Supplement
- Yes, the gearbox was a bit saggy and I was alarmed at how much pressure the brake pedal needed to do an emergency stop, but other than this, all was well.
- The building used to look a bit fancier, and much more decorative, but it was never rebuilt.
- They are very much secluded from the rest of Chiloe, and have scarcely any sort of commerce, except sometimes in a little oil, which they get from seal-blubber. Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle