Overmuch vs Enormous - What's the difference?
overmuch | enormous | Related terms |
(chiefly, British) very much; too much
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(chiefly, British) too much; overly much
(obsolete) Deviating from the norm; unusual, extraordinary.
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(obsolete) Exceedingly wicked; atrocious or outrageous.
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Extremely large; greatly exceeding the common size, extent, etc.
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Overmuch is a related term of enormous.
As a determiner overmuch
is (chiefly|british) very much; too much.As an adverb overmuch
is (chiefly|british) too much; overly much.As an adjective enormous is
(obsolete) deviating from the norm; unusual, extraordinary.overmuch
English
Determiner
(en determiner)- This seemed to me a more important priority in 1959 than overmuch argument about nuclear philosophical heresies of one kind or another.
Adverb
- Some readers do not care overmuch for poetry.
enormous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- all shall be rather enforced than hindered, except they be dismembered, or grievously deformed, infirm, or visited with some enormous hereditary disease is body or mind.
- how apt wee are to receive all impressions, and chiefly the most wicked and enormous .
High and wet, passage=Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. The early, intense onset of the monsoon on June 14th swelled rivers, washing away roads, bridges, hotels and even whole villages. Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.}}
citation, passage=He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.}}