lots

1. 1.

   to a very great degree or extent

   “I feel a lot better”

   “we enjoyed ourselves very much”

   “she was very much interested”

   “this would help a great deal”

   Synonymsa lota good deala great dealmuchvery much

Other forms of lots

plural

lotses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about lots

What does lots mean?

lots means "a large number or amount". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in lots?

lots has 1 syllable: lots. In IPA it is /ˈlɑts/.

What is another word for lots?

Close synonyms include tons, dozens, heaps, piles, scores. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lots a common word?

lots is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with lots?

1 word rhymes with lots. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.