a (whole) heap of sth
informalDefinition
› a lot of something: I've got a whole heap of work to do.Large in number or quantity
(Definition of a (whole) heap of sth from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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- Also, extra, and in addition
- Augmenting and supplementing
- Available and accessible
- Becoming and making smaller or less
- Becoming bigger
- Big and quite big
- Enlarging and inflating
- Enormous
- Enough
- Extremely small
- General words for size and amount
- Increasing and intensifying
- Masses and large amounts of things
- Maximum and minimum
- Medium-sized
- Merely and barely
- Plenty and abundant
- Scarce, inadequate and not enough
- Small
- Small in number and quantity
- Some and quite
- Someone, anyone, no one or everyone
- Something, anything, nothing, and everything
- Things collected in lines or rings
- Things remaining
- Too much and unnecessary
- Unavailable and inaccessible
- Unlimited
- Words meaning small pieces and amounts
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Synonyms and related words:
- a hundred/thousand/million and one idiom
- above adverb, preposition (MORE)
- and then some idiom
- another determiner, pronoun (ADDITIONAL)
- any amount of idiom
- bags of sth idiom
- huge adjective
- in buckets idiom
- in spades idiom
- incalculable adjective
- innumerable adjective
- legion adjective
- lot noun (LARGE AMOUNT)
- million number
- much determiner
- thick on the ground idiom
- thing noun (IDEA/EVENT)
- tremendous adjective
- untold adjective
- upward(s) of preposition
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