not much

ADJECTIVE

light

Synonyms

STRONGEST

casual faint gentle mild moderate slight soft sparse thin tiny weak

STRONG

minor minuscule minute restricted scanty shoestring trifling wee

WEAK

digestible fractional fragmentary frivolous frugal hardly any hardly enough inadequate inconsequential inconsiderable indistinct insignificant insufficient modest not many not rich puny superficial trivial unimportant unsubstantial

Antonyms

STRONGEST

big concentrated great heavy large

STRONG

huge

ADVERB

hardly

Synonyms

STRONGEST

barely comparatively practically rarely seldom simply somewhat

STRONG

just

WEAK

almost inconceivably almost not by a hair by no means detectably faintly gradually imperceptibly infrequently little no more than no way not a bit not at all not by much not likely not markedly not measurably not notably not noticeably not often not quite once in a blue moon only only just perceptibly pretty near scantly slightly sparsely sporadically with trouble

Antonyms

STRONGEST

frequently

WEAK

very

ADVERB

meagerly

Synonyms

WEAK

barely inadequately skimpily

ADVERB

somewhat

Synonyms

STRONGEST

a little considerably fairly far kind of moderately partially pretty quite rather significantly slightly

WEAK

adequately bearably in part incompletely insignificantly more or less ratherish some something sort of to a degree tolerably well

Antonyms

STRONGEST

little

WEAK

not at all

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

But then there’s not much about this war that wasn’t ill-conceived and half-baked.

From Salon • May 28, 2026

"It's a lot of risk for something you can buy down the shops for not much money - and that's hilarious," says Alsop.

From BBC • May 22, 2026

To be sure, that’s not much of a statistical sample.

From MarketWatch • May 22, 2026

Falling rates, in particular, can put pressure on interest payments to BDCs, though that’s not much of a worry right now.

From Barron's • May 21, 2026

It was an oversimplification, but not much of one.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

not much

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