not much

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light adj.
hardly adv.
meagerly adv.
somewhat adv.

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

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not much

"And then when you have conditions in which the car slides in the race, there's not much grip, then I think he is the master in these kind of conditions."

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026

"The bumps are so big. There's not much you can do. You need to have a car that's all right over bumps, that's not trying to kill you every time," Palou said.

From Barron's ● Aug. 23, 2026

“There simply is not much room for either stock prices or EPS to continue rising without some correction or a pause which allows the trendline averages to catch up,” Paulsen contends.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026

Voters were asked whether each label made them more inclined or less inclined to back a given candidate, or if they believed there was not much difference or had no opinion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

“And it was not much different from any other day. The field hands did not have to work on Christmas day. We didn’t have any Christmas presents.”

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

not much

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