Ever So

Definition: Ever So

Ever So

Adverb

1. (intensifier for adjectives) very; "she was ever so friendly".

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Synonym: Ever So

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.

Crosswords: Ever So

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)

Ever so high. (Flaming; performing artist: Pink Floyd)

Be It Ever So Humble (1913)

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Books

• Be it ever so humble (reference)

• Ever So Slightly (reference)

• Teacup Be It Ever So Humble (reference)

  (more book examples)

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They hugged and kissed each other for ever so long. Credit: Library of Congress.

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And I noticed as the left foot went down at the heel, ever so much deeper than the other.

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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

Romanian

foarte (awfully, exceedingly, greatly, highly, immortally, indeed, jolly, most, much, notably, plenty, quite, too, very, very much), deosebit de (markedly, particularly). (various references)

Russian 

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)

Serbo-Croatian

maksimalno (most: at the most). (various references)

Swedish

väldigt (almighty, awfully, hugely, jolly, mightily, mighty, precious, thundering, vastly, very, whacking, whaling), hemskt (awful, awfully, frightfully), friskt (freshly, like anything). (various references)

Turkish

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)

Et cetera, Liza haematochila. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: soever.

-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.

+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.