a good deal

Speech parts

1. a good deal - Noun

2. a good deal - Adverb

Meaning

to a very great degree or extent

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

a great deal much a lot numerous extremely altogether awfully lots very much again and again abundantly all the time appreciably to a great extent to a large extent
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Antonyms

some slightly scarcely insignificantly chicken feed a few
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Examples

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give. Eleanor Roosevelt

It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required. Stephen Leacock

If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism. Wallace Stevens

A good deal for two, is a clip on the ears of a third. Finnish Proverb

At court they sell a good deal of smoke without fire. Danish Proverb

Better a little chiding than a good deal of heartache. English Proverb

Close letter words and terms

a good bet a good catch a good conscience is a soft pillow a good deal of a good egg a good few