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Definition: Ever So |
Ever SoAdverb1. (intensifier for adjectives) very; "she was ever so friendly". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Ever SoSynonym: ever (adv). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Diuturnity | Adverb: long; for a long time, for an age, for ages, for ever so long, for many a long day; long ago; (in a past time); longo intervallo. |
Greatness | Greatly; Adjective: much, muckle, well, indeed, very, very much, a deal, no end of, most, not a little; pretty, pretty well; enough, in a great measure, richly; to a large extent, to a great extent, to a gigantic extent; on a large scale; so; never so, ever so; ever so dole; scrap, shred, tag, splinter, rag, much; by wholesale; mighty, powerfully; with a witness, ultra, in the extreme, extremely, exceedingly, intensely, exquisitely, acutely, indefinitely, immeasurably; beyond compare, beyond comparison, beyond measure, beyond all bounds; incalculably, infinitely. |
Multitude | Adjective: many, several, sundry, divers, various, not a few; Briarean; a hundred, a thousand, a myriad, a million, a quadrillion, a nonillion, a thousand and one; some ten or a dozen, some forty or fifty; half a dozen, half a hundred; very many, full many, ever so many; numerous; numerose; profuse, in profusion; manifold, multiplied, multitudinous, multiple, multinominal, teeming, populous, peopled, crowded, thick, studded; galore. |
Smallness | Partially, in part; in a certain degree, to a certain degree; to a certain extent; comparatively; some, rather in some degree, in some measure; something, somewhat; simply, only, purely, merely; at least, at the least, at most, at the most; ever so little, as little as may be, tant soit peu, in ever so small a degree; thus far, pro tanto, within bounds, in a manner, after a fashion, so to speak. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Ever So |
| English words defined with "ever so": ever ♦ Never so. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ever so": Ever ♦ IMMODEST ♦ Never ♦ Other. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Then they got a couple of pruning hooks from the garden and fished me out ever so gently. (Sunset Blvd.; writing credit: Charles Brackett) Sometimes, I just want to put this gun right against her head, and ever so gently, pull the trigger. (Death on the Nile; writing credit: Agatha Christie; Anthony Shaffer) It's ever so much more important. (Getting It Right; writing credit: Elizabeth Jane Howard) Hey, little girl, does your fish ever so often come out of water and lay on a rock? (All in the Family; writing credit: Johnny Speight; Norman Lear) Be it ever so rat-infested, there's no place like home. (Peacemaker; writing credit: Kevin Tenney) | |
Lyrics | Ever so high. (Flaming; performing artist: Pink Floyd) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Be It Ever So Humble (1913) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | They hugged and kissed each other for ever so long. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Author Unknown | Be it ever so humble, there's no opinion like one's own. |
Charles Dickens | Life is made of ever so many partings welded together. |
John Ruskin | No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish. |
Sir Edward Coke | No restraint, be it ever so little, but is imprisonment. |
William Mcfee | It is extraordinary how many emotional storms one may weather in safety if one is ballasted with ever so little gold. |
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Tangled Tale | Carroll, Lewis | And I noticed as the left foot went down at the heel, ever so much deeper than the other. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | IMMODEST, adj. Having a strong sense of one's own merit, coupled with a feeble conception of worth in others. There was once a man in Ispahan Ever and ever so long ago, And he had a head, the phrenologists said, That fitted him for a show. For his modesty's bump was so large a lump (Nature, they said, had taken a freak) That its summit stood far above the wood Of his hair, like a mountain peak. So modest a man in all Ispahan, Over and over again they swore -- So humble and meek, you would vainly seek; None ever was found before. Meantime the hump of that awful bump Into the heavens contrived to get To so great a height that they called the wight The man with the minaret. There wasn't a man in all Ispahan Prouder, or louder in praise of his chump: With a tireless tongue and a brazen lung He bragged of that beautiful bump Till the Shah in a rage sent a trusty page Bearing a sack and a bow-string too, And that gentle child explained as he smiled: "A little present for you." The saddest man in all Ispahan, Sniffed at the gift, yet accepted the same. "If I'd lived," said he, "my humility Had given me deathless fame!" Sukker Uffro |
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| Language | Translations for "ever so"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | shumë (amount, awful, awfully, badly, confoundedly, considerably, consumedly, damnably, dearly, deep, deuced, devilish, far, far and away, good few, greatly, heap, heartily, highly, jolly, largely, like mad, lot, lots of, lump, many, million, most, much, no end of, not a few, notedly, number, oodles, passing, passingly, Peck, poly-, precious, price, proceeds, quantum, quite, really, remarkably, scrip, so, sorely, sum, summation, thumping, too, tot, total, totality, umpteen, vastly, very, very much, widely). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | много (almighty, amain, awfully, bally, deep, dozens, good deal, great deal, greatly, heartily, high, highly, hundreds, immensely, jolly, loads of, lot, lots of, many, mint, much, nice and, only too, passing, plenty, power, quantities, quantity, real, right, sight, simply, sopping, sorely, terrifically, thumping, to a large degree, to death, unco, unusually, vastly, very, very many, very much indeed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | velmi (all, deeply, extremely, greatly, grossly, most, nearly, very). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | useinkin (ever so often, often enough), olipa se miten hyvä tahansa (be it ever so good, however good it is), niitä oli tavattoman paljon (there were ever so many of them), monen monituista kertaa (ever so many times), kiitän sydämestäni (thank you ever so much!). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | unheimlich (creepy, eerie, ever such, frightening, immensely, impossibly, incredibly, scary, sinister, spooky, terribly, tremendous, uncannily, uncanny, unearthly, weird). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | bármennyire is (much as). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | everay osay foarte (awfully, exceedingly, greatly, highly, immortally, indeed, jolly, most, much, notably, plenty, quite, too, very, very much), deosebit de (markedly, particularly). (various references) очень (anxiously, awful, awfully, badly, damnably, dooms, enormously, exceedingly, extremely, greatly, highly, hugely, immensely, jolly, miserably, most, much, overwhelmingly, particularly, passing, pretty much, quite, real, screamingly, so, thumping, to a degree, too, vastly, very, very much, very much indeed, well). (various references) maksimalno (most: at the most). (various references) väldigt (almighty, awfully, hugely, jolly, mightily, mighty, precious, thundering, vastly, very, whacking, whaling), hemskt (awful, awfully, frightfully), friskt (freshly, like anything). (various references) pek (eminently, jolly, much, quite, rattling, so, spanking, very, very much), çok (a great number of, a lot, a whale of, a whale of a lot, abounding, abundant, acres and acres, affluent, ample, awfully, badly, big, bloody, countless, damned, darned, dead, deadly, deeply, enormously, exuberant, fair, fantastically, galore, good, greatly, heaps of, heartily, hearty, heavily, heavy, hell, hell of, helluva, highly, innumerable, jolly, largely, lavish, like hell, loads of, lot, lots of, many, molto, more, much, multi-, multitudinous, numerous, over, piping, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, plenty of, poly-, precious, pretty, prodigal, profuse, rank, rattling, revoltingly, sadly, so, some, sorely, spanking, strongly, such, thundering, tidy, too, umpteen, umpteenth, umptieth, vast, vastly, very, well, whaling, whopping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Et cetera, Liza haematochila. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: soever. | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-o-r-s-v" | |
-1 letter: erose, overs, roves, serve, servo, sever, veers, verse, verso. | |
-2 letters: eros, ever, eves, ores, over, rees, revs, roes, rose, rove, seer, sere, sore, veer, vees, voes. | |
-3 letters: ere, ers, eve, oes, ore, ors, ose, ree, res, rev, roe, see, ser, vee, voe. | |
-4 letters: er, es, oe, or, os, re, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-o-r-s-v" | |
+1 letter: corvees, erosive, evokers, observe, obverse, oeuvres, oversea, oversee, overset, oversew, overuse, removes, resolve, reverso, revokes, revotes, verbose, vetoers. | |
+2 letters: conserve, converse, coverers, coveters, estovers, eversion, evertors, evolvers, feverous, forevers, hoverers, observed, observer, observes, obverses, outserve, overages, overawes, overbets, overdoes, overdose, overdyes, overeasy, overeats, overlets, overlies, oversale, oversave, overseas, overseed, overseen, overseer, oversees, oversell, oversets, oversewn, oversews, overshoe, overside, oversize, overstep, oversure, overused, overuses, overwets, overwise, recovers, reevokes, relievos, removers, reproves, resolved, resolver, resolves, restrove, reversos, revoices, revokers, revolves, shoveler, venomers, voleries, vortexes, whosever. | |
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