Word Meanings - MUCHNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Greatness; extent. The quantity and muchness of time which it filcheth. W. Whately. Much of a muchness, much the same. "Men's men; gentle or simple, they 're much of muchness." G. Eliot.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MUCHNESS)

• Quantity
• Measure
• amount
• bulk
• size
• sum
• portion
• aggregate
• muchness
• part
• share
• division

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of MUCHNESS)

• Fall
• recede
• relapse
• decline
• fail
• Misfit
• misconform
• mismeasure
• misdeal
• misapportion

Related words: (words related to MUCHNESS)

• SHAREBEAM
  The part of the plow to which the share is attached.
• PORTIONIST
  One of the incumbents of a benefice which has two or more rectors or vicars. (more info) 1. A scholar at Merton College, Oxford, who has a certain academical allowance or portion; -- corrupted into postmaster. Shipley.
• DIVISIONARY
  Divisional.
• DIVISIONALLY
  So as to be divisional.
• RECEDE
  1. To move back; to retreat; to withdraw. Like the hollow roar Of tides receding from the instituted shore. Dryden. All bodies moved circularly endeavor to recede from the center. Bentley. 2. To withdraw a claim or pretension; to desist;
• MEASURER
  One who measures; one whose occupation or duty is to measure commondities in market.
• DECLINE
  décliner to decline, refuse, fr. L. declinare to turn aside, inflect , avoid; de- + clinare to incline; akin to E. lean. 1. To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness,
• RELAPSER
  One who relapses. Bp. Hall.
• QUANTITY
  1. The attribute of being so much, and not more or less; the property of being measurable, or capable of increase and decrease, multiplication and division; greatness; and more concretely, that which answers the question "How much"; measure in
• MUCHNESS
  Greatness; extent. The quantity and muchness of time which it filcheth. W. Whately. Much of a muchness, much the same. "Men's men; gentle or simple, they 're much of muchness." G. Eliot.
• MEASURELESS
  Without measure; unlimited; immeasurable. -- Meas"ure*less*ness, n. Syn. -- Boundless; limitless; endless; unbounded; unlimited; vast; immense; infinite; immeasurable. Where Alf, the sacred river ran, Through canyons measureless to man, Down to
• SHAREBROKER
  A broker who deals in railway or other shares and securities.
• DIVISIONAL
  That divides; pas, a divisional line; a divisional general; a divisional surgeon of police. Divisional planes , planes of separation between rock masses. They include joints.
• DECLINER
  He who declines or rejects. A studious decliner of honors. Evelyn.
• AGGREGATE
  1. Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; collective. The aggregate testimony of many hundreds. Sir T. Browne. 2. Formed into clusters or groups of lobules; as, aggregate glands. 3. Composed of several florets within
• PORTION
  1. That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything. 2. A part considered by itself, though not actually cut off or separated from the whole. These are parts of his ways; but how little a portion is heard
• PORTIONER
  See 2 (more info) 1. One who portions.
• MEASURE
  The space between two bars. See Beat, Triple, Quadruple, Sextuple, Compound time, under Compound, a., and Figure. The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, a foot; as, a poem in iambic
• SHAREWORT
  A composite plant growing along the seacoast of Europe.
• AMOUNT
  L. ad montem to the mountain) upward, F. amont up the river. See 1. To go up; to ascend. So up he rose, and thence amounted straight. Spenser. 2. To rise or reach by an accumulation of particular sums or quantities; to come in the aggregate or
• DISPROPORTIONALLY
  In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.
• IMPROPORTIONATE
  Not proportionate.
• DISPROPORTIONABLE
  Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. Hammond. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*bly, adv.
• DISPROPORTIONALITY
  The state of being disproportional. Dr. H. More.
• PROPORTIONATE
  Adjusted to something else according to a proportion; proportional. Longfellow. What is proportionate to his transgression. Locke.
• MISDIVISION
  Wrong division.
• REAPPORTIONMENT
  A second or a new apportionment.
• MISPROPORTION
  To give wrong proportions to; to join without due proportion.
• IMMEASURED
  Immeasurable. Spenser.
• PRECEDENTLY
  Beforehand; antecedently.
• DISPROPORTIONATE
  Not proportioned; unsymmetrical; unsuitable to something else in bulk, form, value, or extent; out of proportion; inadequate; as, in a perfect body none of the limbs are disproportionate; it is wisdom not to undertake a work disproportionate means.
• ADMEASURE
  To determine the proper share of, or the proper apportionment; as, to admeasure dower; to admeasure common of pasture. Blackstone. 2. The measure of a thing; dimensions; size. (more info) 1. To measure.
• OVERMUCHNESS
  The quality or state of being in excess; superabundance. B. Jonson.
• REMEASURE
  To measure again; to retrace. They followed him . . . The way they came, their steps remeasured right. Fairfax.
• OUTMEASURE
  To exceed in measure or extent; to measure more than. Sir T. Browne.