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a good deal

a good deal adverb: very much; to a great extent; a lot; lots.

Adverb

a good deal (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic) Very much; to a great extent; a lot; lots.
    • We had a good deal more money after winning the lottery.
    • He said he was sometimes whistling a tune to himself — for, like me, he sawed a good deal on the fiddle; […]1835, James Hogg, The Story of Euphemia Hewit
    Synonyms:
    a great deal

a good deal meaning in Bengali and Malayalam

a good deal in Bengali

অনেক বেশি, অনেকখানি, প্রচুর

a good deal in Malayalam

സിംഹഭാഗം

Examples of a good deal in a sentence

  • She was a good deal frightened by this very sudden change, but she felt that there was no time to be lost, as she was shrinking rapidly: so she set to work at once to eat some of the other bit.1865, Lewis Carroll, “Chapter 5: Advice from a Caterpillar”, in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland:
  • She could not suggest in what quarter of London the shop in question was likely to be as the deceased was accustomed to go about a good deal.1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries:

Synonyms of a good deal

Origin of a good deal

From deal (“division, portion, share”). Compare a great deal, etc.

Questions about a good deal

What does a good deal mean?
A good deal means very much; to a great extent; a lot; lots.
What is a good deal in Bengali?
A good deal in Bengali is অনেক বেশি, অনেকখানি, প্রচুর. See A good deal meaning in Bengali.
How do you use a good deal in a sentence?
She was a good deal frightened by this very sudden change, but she felt that there was no time to be lost, as she was shrinking rapidly: so she set to work at once to eat some of the other bit.
What part of speech is a good deal?
A good deal is an adverb.

Words near a good deal in the dictionary

  1. a go-go
  2. a God's name
  3. a golden key can open any door
  4. a good beginning makes a good ending
  5. a good conscience is a soft pillow
  6. a good deal
  7. a good deed is its own reward
  8. a good few
  9. a good look
  10. a good many
  11. a great deal

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Adapted from Wiktionary: a good deal (page history and authors); a good deal (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); a good deal (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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