mucho

English

Etymology

From Spanish mucho. Unrelated to English much.

Adjective

mucho (not comparable)

1. (often humorous) Much; a great deal of.
   • 1978, Debbie Harry, Chris Stein (lyrics and music), “Heart of Glass”, in Parallel Lines, performed by Blondie, Chrysalis Records:

     Seemed like the real thing, only to find / Mucho mistrust, love's gone behind

   • 1989 December 22, Achy Obejas, “Calendar”, in Chicago Reader‎^[1]:

     There will be calamities, maudlin melodramas, and mucho pathos at Cries & Whispers--A Tragedy Club, which seeks to reverse our town's love of comedy.

Adverb

mucho (not comparable)

1. (often humorous) very
   • 2014 November 7, Hadley Freeman, “God save us from the philosemitism of Burchill, Amis and Mensch”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

     And this makes sense because, as with Burchill, Amis’s philosemitism is quasi-sexual and mucho ridiculous.

Anagrams

• hocum, mouch

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmu.xɔ/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -uxɔ
• Syllabification: mu‧cho

Noun

mucho f

1. vocative singular of mucha

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish mucho, from Latin multus (“much, many”), from the Proto-Indo-European *ml̥tos (“crumbled, crumpled”, past passive participle). Compare the Portuguese muito (“much, many, a lot”). Unrelated to English much, which is related to archaic maño (“big”) (the second element in tamaño).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmut͡ʃo/ [ˈmu.t͡ʃo]

• Audio (Peru):

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• Rhymes: -utʃo
• Syllabification: mu‧cho

Determiner

mucho m sg (feminine mucha, masculine plural muchos, feminine plural muchas)

1. (in the singular) much, a lot of

   No tengo mucho dinero.

   I don't have much money.

   Tengo mucho dinero.

   I have a lot of money.

2. (in the plural) many, a lot of

   Tengo muchas monedas.

   I have many coins.

Derived terms

• como mucho
• con mucho
• cuando mucho
• muchísimo
• mucho gusto
• mucho ruido y pocas nueces
• ni mucho menos
• por mucho
• por mucho que

 

Adverb

mucho

1. much, a lot, far, way

   Es mucho más difícil salir que entrar.

   It is way harder to get out than to get in.

   La situación real era mucho más complicada de lo que se sugería en el documento.

   The real situation was far more complicated than was suggested in the document.

2. long, a long time

Antonyms

• un poco

Related terms

• muy

 

Pronoun

mucho m (feminine mucha, masculine plural muchos, feminine plural muchas)

1. a lot, many

Derived terms

• nunca mucho cuesta poco

 

See also

• bastante
• más
• muy

Further reading

• “mucho”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28