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LARGE INDEFINITE AMOUNT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does large indefinite amount mean? 

LARGE INDEFINITE AMOUNT (noun)
  The noun LARGE INDEFINITE AMOUNT has 1 sense:

1. an indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitudeplay

  Familiarity information: LARGE INDEFINITE AMOUNT used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


LARGE INDEFINITE AMOUNT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

An indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

large indefinite amount; large indefinite quantity

Hypernyms ("large indefinite amount" is a kind of...):

indefinite quantity (an estimated quantity)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "large indefinite amount"):

maximum; upper limit (the largest possible quantity)

dozens; gobs; heaps; lashings; loads; lots; oodles; piles; rafts; scads; scores; slews; stacks; tons; wads (a large number or amount)

small fortune (a large sum of money)

ream (a large quantity of written matter)

ocean; sea (anything apparently limitless in quantity or volume)

myriad (a large indefinite number)

much (a great amount or extent)

bazillion; billion; gazillion; jillion; million; trillion; zillion (a very large indefinite number (usually hyperbole))

mile (a large distance)

chunk (a substantial amount)

infinitude (an infinite quantity)

boatload; carload; shipload (the amount of cargo that can be held by a boat or ship or a freight car)

all get out; billy-ho; billyo; billyoh (an unimaginably large amount)

battalion; large number; multitude; pack; plurality (a large indefinite number)

batch; deal; flock; good deal; great deal; hatful; heap; lot; mass; mess; mickle; mint; mountain; muckle; passel; peck; pile; plenty; pot; quite a little; raft; sight; slew; spate; stack; tidy sum; wad ((often followed by 'of') a large number or amount or extent)

barrels (the amount that many barrels might hold)

busload (the quantity of cargo or the number of passengers that a bus can carry)


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