tons of
A huge amount
Tons of means a large amount or great deal of something: I have tons of work to do, She's got tons of energy.
The phrase is informal and hyperbolic—no actual weight is implied.
It functions like "lots of" or "a ton of" but emphasizes abundance even more through the plural.
- loadsLarge quantities
- heapsLarge informal quantities
- pilesMultiple heaped accumulations
- mountainsTall elevated landmasses
- stacksVertical arrangements of items
a whole lot · masses · bunches · oodles · scads · gobs · slew · boatloads · truckloads · buckets · barrels · countless · abundance · more than enough · overflow · excess · heavy · weight
- "a lot" phrasesloads of, more than enough
- Hyperbolea zillion, bazillion, gazillion, bajillion, zillion
- excessexcess, too much, excessive, excessiveness, overabundance
quantity/amount
tons ofzero
Numerical absence of quantity
next to nothing · a handful of · precious little · scant · none