Tons and tons
Scads means large quantities or amounts, always plural and usually followed by "of": She has scads of money, scads of time.
The word is informal and somewhat dated, suggesting abundance without precision.
You might hear it from older speakers or in regional American English.
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Tons and tons
Scads means large quantities or amounts, always plural and usually followed by "of": She has scads of money, scads of time.
The word is informal and somewhat dated, suggesting abundance without precision.
You might hear it from older speakers or in regional American English.
1. quantity — oodles, Informal term for plenty; gobs (Heaps, informally); tons (Large quantities, informally); heaps (Large informal quantities); piles · loads · bunches · slew · scores · masses · mountains · truckloads · boatloads · buckets
2. abundance — plenty, Sufficient quantity, and then some; profusion (Extravagant amount present); plethora (Excessive surplus); wealth (Abundance of valuable resources); bounty · multitude · myriad · cornucopia · surplus · glut · overflow · excess · surfeit · superabundance
QUANTITY/ABUNDANCEscads ≠ none Not a single one; nothing · zilch · zero · nada · few
Amounts: a lot, a few, a little, some, many; excess: excess, too much, excessive, excessiveness, overabundance; words for "many: myriad, multitude, numerous, countless, abundant; quantities: some, many, few, amount, several
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Word data: Linguabase (CC0) · www.idea.org/words/scads