bucketloads

Tons and tons

Bucketloads means a large quantity or amount, used informally for emphasis: She's earning bucketloads of money, We've had bucketloads of rain this month.

The image is of volume measured by the bucket rather than by smaller units.

Also spelled as two words: bucket loads.

quantity

tons

Large quantities, informally

  • heapsLarge informal quantities
  • massesBulk or populace
  • stacksVertical arrangements of items

piles · oodles · scads · plenty · gobs · lots · bunches · dozens · scores · slews

informal

tons

Large quantities, informally

gazillions · zillions · bajillions · squillions · scads · gobs · lashings · shedloads · umpteen · stacks

abundance

profusion

Extravagant amount present

plethora · surplus · glut · excess · surfeit · overabundance · oversupply · multitude · myriad · copiousness

Opposites
quantity/amount

bucketloadsnothing

Not any thing

none · zilch · zip · nada · squat

Family

bucket, loads, buckets, bucketful, bucketing, bucketed, bucketfuls

Familiarity
Top 200,000
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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G