2 definitions
for great deal
From WordNet (r) 2.0 :
great deal
n : (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent;
"a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of
money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "it must
have cost plenty" [syn: batch, deal, flock, good
deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle,
mint, muckle, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite
a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy
sum, wad, whole lot, whole slew]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
60 Moby Thesaurus words for "great deal":
a deal, a great deal, a lot, abundantly, as all creation,
as all get-out, batch, beaucoup, considerable, considerably, deal,
ever so, ever so much, galore, gobs, good deal, greatly, heap,
heaps, highly, in great measure, largely, lashings, loads, lot,
lots, mess, mint, much, muchly, never so, no end, no end of,
not a little, oodles, pack, peck, pile, piles, plenty, pot,
pretty much, quite a little, raft, rafts, scads, sight, slew,
slews, so, so very much, spate, stack, stacks, tidy sum,
to the skies, very much, wad, wads, whole slew
