Very Much

Definition: Very Much

Very Much

Adverb

1. To a very great degree or extent; "we enjoyed ourselves very much"; "she was very much interested"; "this would help a great deal".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Very Much

Gratitude

Interjection: thanks! many thanks! gramercy! much obliged! thank you! thank you very much! thanks a lot! thanks a heap, thanks loads; thank Heaven! Heaven be praised! Gott sei Dank!.

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.

Crosswords: Very Much

Yes, very much. (Contact; writing credit: Carl Sagan;)

Before you go however, I very much regret to inform you that a dangerous development has recently been brought to my notice. (The Spy Who Loved Me; writing credit: Christopher Wood)

I'm very much alive. (Hollow Man; writing credit: Gary Scott Thompson; Andrew W. Marlowe)

Ah, thank you very much. (Monty Python and the Holy Grail; writing credit: Graham Chapman; John Cleese)

Well thank you very much, can I be in charge for a while? (Full Metal Jacket; writing credit: Gustav Hasford; Michael Herr)

Well she never asks for very much and I don't refuse her. (She's a Lady; performing artist: Tom Jones)

I don't really need to look very much further (I Have Nothing; performing artist: Whitney Houston)

We often fear being rejected so very much that we reject ourselves first before anyone else has the chance. (references; author: unknown)

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Books

• Poor, harassed but very much alive : an account of street people and their organisation (reference)

• Murray Walker: Unless I'm Very Much Mistaken (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Fine Thank You Very Much (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Photographed from or near the battleship Scharnhorst circa late 1939 or early 1940. The original caption states that this submarine was returning to Kiel, Germany, from a war patrol. Note insignia on the conning tower, which looks very much like U-47's "Bull of Scapa Flow" emblem. Credit: NAVY.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

I like him very much.

The fact is, you ought to be very much obliged to him.

Scrooge was very much dismayed to hear the spectre going on at this rate, and began to quake exceedingly.

He cast his eyes about him, saw nobody, dared not look into that dark corner, and was very much frightened.

The Laocoon interested me very much when I read it.

Men who had never wanted anything very much saw the flare of want in the eyes of the migrants.

I did very much wonder, in all this time, not to have heard of any express relating to me from our Emperor to the court of Blefuscu.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

My poor dear husband didn't stop me very much unless it was too outrageous and then I'd get very angry. (references)

Because symptoms of these disorders can look very much like epileptic seizures, they are often mistaken for epilepsy. (references)

The impact of this condition depends very much on the dynamics of the relationship of the individual and his sexual partner and their expectation of performance. (references)

Business

Productivity, performance and quality are very much improved. (references)

These products are very much influenced by approaches in the U.S. market. (references)

Norwegians are also very much concerned with safety and environmental issues. (references)

Economic History

Uzbekistan

GDP estimates depend very much on the exchange rate used to convert the government's soum figures to dollars. (references)

Austria

Within limits set by Austrian law, telephone and direct mail solicitation are very much in evidence in Austria. (references)

Uk

The most significant change wrought by the 1999 legislation is that it is now very much easier for a TUC affiliate to organize a non-union workplace. (references)

Political Economy

Denmark

Their platforms and political objectives very much resemble each other and have long formed a stable basis for cooperation. (references)

ALGERIA

The balance of trade between the two countries remains very much lopsided in favor of Algeria: the value of its exports to the United States was greater than the value of its imports from the United States by US$ 2 billion in 2001. (references)

Travel

Bahamas

Bahamians tend not to drink very much at business lunches and usually expect the lunch to last between an hour and an hour-and-a-half. (references)

Women

Cameroon

ALVF, one of the few domestic NGO's dedicated to fighting violence against women, reported that while the situation had not changed very much on the ground during the year, women's issues were at least being discussed more often and more openly by the country's political leaders. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "very much": i love you very much ♦ like very much ♦ love very much ♦ not very much ♦ thank you very much indeed! ♦ very much indeed ♦ very much like ♦ very much of a size ♦ very much so ♦ young man very much on the spot. Additional references.

Afrikaans

baie (a lot, a lot of, many, much, plenty, plenty of, quite, very). (various references)

Albanian

shumë (amount, awful, awfully, badly, confoundedly, considerably, consumedly, damnably, dearly, deep, deuced, devilish, ever so, 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, widely), fort (aloud, deeply, greatly, hard, loud, strong, strongly, tight, tightly, too, very, violently, well). (various references)

Arabic 

‏للغاية (immensely, very much indeed), ‏جدا (considerably, enormously, exceedingly, extremely, greatly, highly, immensely, much, quite, so, tremendously, very, very much indeed), ‏شكرا جزيلا (thank you very much). (various references)

Bulgarian 

много (almighty, amain, awfully, bally, deep, dozens, ever so, 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), безкрайно (enormously, indefinitely, infinitely, very much indeed). (various references)

Catalan

molt (quite, very). (various references)

Chinese 

良 (good, very), 萬分 (extremely), 很多 (great, very many). (various references)

Czech

hodnì (aplenty, big deal, very, very much indeed). (various references)

Danish

særlig (particular, quite, special, specific, very), meget (much, quite, very). (various references)

Dutch

erg (important, quite, serious, very). (various references)

Esperanto

tre (quite, very). (various references)

Estonian

väga (very). (various references)

Faeroese

stak (quite, very), sera (quite, very), nógv (extremely, quite, very), avbera (quite, very). (various references)

Finnish

sangen (quite, very). (various references)

French

tout (very), bien (very, very well). (various references)

French Canadian

beaucoup. (various references)

Frisian

tige (considerably, quite, very), rju (quite, very), gâns (entire, integral, overall, quite, very, whole), fleande (quite, very), bot (impolite, quite, rude, very), bjuster (quite, very), ûnhuerich (dismal, dreary, horrible, nasty, quite, very). (various references)

German

sehr (a lot, greatly, highly, keenly, much, quite, right, screamingly, so, sorely, unco, very). (various references)

Greek 

πάρα πολύ (a hell of a lot of, extremely, immensely, keenly, only too, over, too). (various references)

Haitian Creole

anpil (very). (various references)

Hawaiian

shumë (quite, very). (various references)

Hebrew 

מאו�" מאו�" (enormously, extremely, in the extreme). (various references)

Hungarian

igen sok (loads of, too much). (various references)

Icelandic

mjög (quite, very), æði (character, nature, personality, quite, very). (various references)

Indonesian

banyak-banyak. (various references)

Italian

molto (a great deal of, a great many, a great quantity of, a lot of, deep, extremely, far, far off, great, greatly, hard, heavily, highly, jolly, long, lots of, many, mighty, much, plenty, pretty, quite, sight, sorely, strongly, very, widely), assai (a lot of, enough, extremely, far, far away, heartily, heavily, highly, many, much, quite, very). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

至って (exceedingly, extremely), � �る (extremely), 無性に (excessively), 千万 (a great many, exceedingly, indeed, myriad, ten million, very many), 多々 (more and more, very many), 多多 (more and more, very many), 大層 (exaggerated, very fine), 山々 (great deal, many mountains), 山山 (great deal, many mountains), 万々 (fully, never), 万万 (fully, never). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たた (more and more, very many), たいそう (calisthenics, exaggerated, foundation, gymnastics, imperial funeral, Imperial mourning, leading figure, physical exercises, very fine), す�"ぶる (extremely), ま�"ま�" (brimming with, full of, fully, never, vast), ば�"ば�" (fully, never), せ�"ば�" (a great many, exceedingly, first move, indeed, lathe, precedence, very many), いたって (exceedingly, extremely), むしょうに (excessively), やまやま (great deal, many mountains), ちよろず (a great many, exceedingly, indeed, very many). (various references)

Manx

mooarane mooar, er dou bastal, dy mooar (greatly, on a large scale). (various references)

Norwegian

meget (quite, very). (various references)

Papiamen

mashá (quite, very), marsha (quite, very), hopi (a lot of, much, plenty of, quite, very), altamente (quite, very). (various references)

Pig Latin

eryvay uchmay

Polish

nader (quite, very), bardzo (extremely, quite, very). (various references)

Portuguese

muitíssimo (a great deal, a great many, enormously, extremely, most). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

muitíssimo. (various references)

Quechua

anchata. (various references)

Romanian

prea (much, quite, to a fault, too, very), foarte (awfully, ever so, exceedingly, greatly, highly, immortally, indeed, jolly, most, much, notably, plenty, quite, too, very). (various references)

Russian 

очень (anxiously, awful, awfully, badly, damnably, dooms, enormously, ever so, 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 indeed, well). (various references)

Scottish

glé (pretty often, quite, very). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

veoma mnogo (many: a great many). (various references)

Spanish

muy (all over, awfully, greatly, hellish, highly, jolly, mighty, nice, precious, proper, quite, rattling, sorely, too, very). (various references)

Sranan

sote (quite, very), dorodoro (quite, sieve, sift, very). (various references)

Swahili

sana (quite, very), mno (quite, too, too much, very). (various references)

Swedish

mycket (a lot of, far, greatly, heaps, jolly, loads, lot, major, mighty, most, much, not half, overmuch, quite, so, very), mäkta (be able, be able to, be capable of, immensely, quite, very), hart (quite, very), ganska mycket (a good deal, a large number of, fair amount), bra (all right, bonny, fine, funky, good, great, jolly, longish, nice, not badly, o.k., ok, okay, okeydokey, quite, right, useful, very, well). (various references)

Tagalog

nápaka- (quite, very). (various references)

Turkish

pek çok (a great many, a whale of a lot, immensely, mighty, most, numberless, oodles, oodles of, out and away, overmuch, plenty, plenty of), pek (eminently, ever so, jolly, much, quite, rattling, so, spanking, very). (various references)

Turkmen 

weюeс-weюeс. (various references)

Ukrainian

надзвичайно (almighty, amain, anxiously, as anything, awfully, deadly, densely, dreadfully, eminently, enormously, exceedingly, extremely, grossly, highly, hugely, in great measure, in the extreme, jolly, mighty, most, passing, regular, remarkably, ripping, sevenfold, severely, to the utmost, woundily), дуже (anxiously, awfully, bang, bitter, bloody, clinking, curiously, deep, enormously, exceedingly, frightfully, full, gey, greatly, hard, heaps, highly, hugely, immensely, in great measure, jolly, mightily, mighty, miles, much, nervously, notably, particularly, passing, precious, purely, real, really, shocking, some, strong, super, thumping, too, very, violently, well, widely). (various references)

Welsh

iawn (all right, amends, atonement, quite, right, very). (various references)

Wolof

lool. (various references)

Xhosa

kakhulu. (various references)

Yucatec

hach (quite, very). (various references)

Zulu

kakhulu (quite, very). (various references)

admodum, antigerio, apprime, magnopere magnus opere, maxime, maximeque, nimis, nimium, plurima, plurimi, plurimis, plurimo, plurimorum, plurimum, summopere, valde, vehementer, vehementissime, vehementius. (various references)

ealfela. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: curvey, rheumy.

-3 letters: chevy, chyme, curve, curvy, mercy, rheum, rhyme, ruche.

-4 letters: chum, cure, cyme, ecru, herm, much, mure, very, yech, yuch.

-5 letters: cry, cue, cum, cur, ecu, emu, hem, her, hey, hue, hum, rec, rem, rev, rue, rum, rye, yeh, yum.