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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

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The pods have room for a bed. not much else, and superlow headroom.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026

By the same token, there’s not much rooting them in this version of religion.

From Salon • May 4, 2026

In February there is not much to see yet, just thin fronds that will become metre-long blades by spring.

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026

The NFL isn’t likely to sanction unflattering content, at least not much of it, yet the goal is to make the stories as realistic as possible.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 27, 2026

There’s not much to do except try to keep them from becoming infected.

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz