Synonyms of lots

Noun


1. tons, dozens, heaps, lots, piles, scores, stacks, loads, rafts, slews, wads, oodles, gobs, scads, lashings, large indefinite quantity, large indefinite amount

usage: a large number or amount; "made lots of new friends"; "she amassed stacks of newspapers"

Noun


1. tons, dozens, heaps, lots, piles, scores, stacks, loads, rafts, slews, wads, oodles, gobs, scads, lashings, large indefinite quantity, large indefinite amount

usage: (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money"

2. batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad, large indefinite quantity, large indefinite amount

usage: a parcel of land having fixed boundaries; "he bought a lot on the lake"

3. lot, tract, piece of land, piece of ground, parcel of land, parcel

usage: an unofficial association of people or groups; "the smart set goes there"; "they were an angry lot"

4. set, circle, band, lot, social group

usage: your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you); "whatever my fortune may be"; "deserved a better fate"; "has a happy lot"; "the luck of the Irish"; "a victim of circumstances"; "success that was her portion"

5. fortune, destiny, fate, luck, lot, circumstances, portion, condition

usage: anything (straws or pebbles etc.) taken or chosen at random; "the luck of the draw"; "they drew lots for it"

6. draw, lot, object, physical object

usage: any collection in its entirety; "she bought the whole caboodle"

7. bunch, lot, caboodle, collection, aggregation, accumulation, assemblage

usage: (Old Testament) nephew of Abraham; God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah but chose to spare Lot and his family who were told to flee without looking back at the destruction

Verb


1. lot, divide, split, split up, separate, dissever, carve up

usage: divide into lots, as of land, for example

2. distribute, administer, mete out, deal, parcel out, lot, dispense, shell out, deal out, dish out, allot, dole out, give

usage: administer or bestow, as in small portions; "administer critical remarks to everyone present"; "dole out some money"; "shell out pocket money for the children"; "deal a blow to someone"; "the machine dispenses soft drinks"

Adverb


1. a lot, lots, a good deal, a great deal, much, very much

usage: to a very great degree or extent; "I feel a lot better"; "we enjoyed ourselves very much"; "she was very much interested"; "this would help a great deal"

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