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passel

[pas-uhl] / ˈpæs əl /
NOUN
heap
Synonyms
STRONGEST
ream scad
STRONG
abundance agglomeration aggregation assemblage bank batch bulk bunch bundle cargo clump cluster collection concentration congeries deposit fullness gathering gobs harvest haul hill hoard jillion jumble load lot lots lump mass million mint mound mountain much multiplicity ocean oodles plenty pot profusion quantity stack stock stockpile store sum thousand ton total trillion volume whole
WEAK
a lot amassment great deal
Antonyms
STRONG
debt ditch individual lack little need one part valley want

Example Sentences

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Bianco, fellow Republican Steve Hilton and a passel of Democratic hopefuls are bunched together in a contest that remains utterly wide open just weeks before voters start receiving their ballots in the mail.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2026

Then he secretly purchases a passel of tortoises; constructs a long-handled grabber; leans down from his balcony; extracts Alfie; and, each week, substitutes a slightly heavier impostor.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026

Affordable, capable, and practical, the subcompact 2026 Subaru Crosstrek is also a passel of fun.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 26, 2025

First, the attorney general could not unilaterally throw the entire mass of non-grand jury Epstein evidence into the public domain, at least not without violating a passel of statutes and DOJ internal rules and norms.

From Slate • Jul. 21, 2025

She isn’t expected to take care of a passel of kids, as she was at one of the places she lived, or clean up after fifteen dirty cats, as she was at another.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.