much
/mʌt͡ʃ/ adverb A1- To a great extent. · I don't like melon much, and I don’t much care for milk chocolate either: I find them both much too sweet.· However much I eat, I never get fat.
- for emphasis or to indicate a great difference · He is much fatter than I remember him.· Honestly, I can't stand much more of this.
- Often; frequently. · Does he get drunk much?
- Used to indicate or compare extent. · I don't like Wagner as much as I like Mozart.
- Combining with an adjective or (occasionally) a noun, used in a rhetorical question to mock someone for having the specified quality. · Jamie's always preaching about how we need to save a planet when she drives literally everywhere she goes. Like, hypocritical much?
Comparative more · Superlative most
From the library
“Is your master much at Pemberley in the course of the year?”
“Not so much as I could wish, sir: but I dare say he may spend half his time here; and Miss Darcy is always down for the summer months.”
Elizabeth could not help saying, “It is very much to his credit, I am sure, that you should think so.”
“There are very few people of whom so much can be said.
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