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so much en · ADV

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. (not-comparable) To a great degree or extent; very much.
   • I love you so much.
2. (not-comparable) To such a degree or extent.
   • Will you please stop complaining so much!
   • It wasn't so much that I don’t want to, but I just didn't have the time.
3. (not-comparable, usually, with negatives) To such a degree or extent. ▸ Making a comparison with another situation; as much.
   • I used to like her a lot, but now I don't like her so much.
4. (not-comparable) To such a degree or extent. ▸ To a (usually large) extent sufficient to bring about a given consequence.
   • Identical twins are so much alike, it is difficult to identify them.
5. (not-comparable) To a demonstrated or implied degree or extent; this much, that much.
   • Don't over-whisk the mixture – only whisk it so much.

Deriveds

like so much · only so much · so much for · so much the better · so much as · so much so

Relateds

so many

Translations (22)

la tantopere (to a certain degree or extent) · gl tanto (to a certain degree or extent) · pl tak (to a certain degree or extent) · io tante (to a certain degree or extent) · eo tiamaniere (to a certain degree or extent) · ps دومره (to a certain degree or extent) · ca tant (to a certain degree or extent) · pt tão (to a certain degree or extent) · ru вот сто́лько (to a certain degree or extent) · wa télmint (to a certain degree or extent) · ru насто́лько (to a certain degree or extent) · la tantum (to a certain degree or extent) · ro foarte mult (to a certain degree or extent) · el τόσο (to a certain degree or extent) · es tanto (to a certain degree or extent) · ur اتنا (to a certain degree or extent) · it così tanto (to a certain degree or extent) · fr tellement (to a certain degree or extent) · hi इतना (to a certain degree or extent) · ro atât (to a certain degree or extent) · rup ahãntu (to a certain degree or extent) · it a tal punto (to a certain degree or extent)

so much en · DET

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. A particular amount of (something), often a large or excessive amount.
   • There is only so much information you can remember.
   • How could you eat so much ice-cream?
   • I've got so much work to do, but so little time.
2. (usually, with negatives) A particular amount of (something), often a large or excessive amount. ▸ Making a comparison with another situation; as much.
   • There isn't so much sand on this beach as there used to be.
3. A particular amount of (something), often a large or excessive amount. ▸ An amount of (something) sufficient to bring about a given consequence.
   • There is so much snow, I can't get out of the door.
4. A demonstrated amount of (something).
   • "Just so much flour," he replied, sprinkling a small pile on the table.

so much en · PRON

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. As determiner, above, but with the complement omitted and stated elsewhere or understood from context.
   • There used to be a lot of sand on this beach, but now there isn't so much.
   • Look at all that snow! I've never seen so much!
   • How could you eat so much?
2. With the complement indicated with 'of'.
   • We tiptoed into the house, up the stairs and along the hall into the room where the Professor had been spending so much of his time. 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter XIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
   • Stop spending so much of my money!