amorousness, n.1. passion, ardor, fervency; sexuality, lust, concupiscence, salaciousness; lecherousness, prurience, lasciviousness, lewdness, licentiousness, wantonness, libidinousness; sensuality, voluptuousness.
2. enamoredness, infatuation, lovesickness; devotion, dotingness; tenderness, fondness, affection, love, amativeness.
amorphous, adj.formless, unformed, unshapen, shapeless, structureless, unstructured; indeterminate, vague, nebulous, characterless, nondescript; unorganized, confused, jumbled, chaotic,
amount, n.1. total, grand total, sum, sum total, whole, aggregate, lot; All SI.
whole bunch, whole mess, whole deal, whole shebang, whole kit and caboodle, whole shooting match, the works, whole ball of wax.
2. quantity, number, count, Scot and North Eng. feck; deal, pack, mass, SI.heap, SI.mess; part, parcel, portion; measure, extent, reach, range, compass.
3. effect, significance, value, import, purport; result, sum and substance, harvest.
-v. 4. equal, match, tally, correspond, agree, measure up to, SI.stack up with oragainst; extend, reach, touch, approximate.
5. aggregate, total, add up to, come to, run to, mount up to, reckon up to; cost, sell for, fetch, bring, set one back.
6. become, develop into, grow, progress, advance, maturate, amount to something.
amour, n.love affair, romance, Fr. affaire d' amour,
affair of the heart, Fr. affaire de coeur;
affair, liaison, illicit love affair, fornication, adultery, Law. criminal conversation.
ample, adj.1. big, large, considerable, amplitudinous, Scot.
wally; spacious, capacious, commodious, roomy; vast, great, immense, huge, boundless, voluminous; wide, broad, outspread, expansive, extensive.
2. plentiful, plenteous, plenitudinous, bountiful, bounteous, abundant, fat, copious; immeasurable, unmeasured, unstinted, inexhaustible, bottomless; much, many, numerous, Inf.dime a dozen; in quantity orquantities, in plenty, Inf.aplenty, Inf.galore.
3. profuse, abounding, overflowing, overspilling, spilling over, running over, exuberant, superabundant; rich, lavish, luxuriant; free, generous, liberal, handsome, munificent.
4. adequate, sufficient, enough, satisfactory; enough and to spare, enough and then some, more than enough, more than adequate, Inf.plenty.
amplification, n.1. increase, enlargement, Archaic. ampliation, aggrandizement; expansion, widening, thickening, broadening; extension, lengthening, prolongation, protraction; inflation, dilatation, dilation, waxing; growth, spread, swell.
2. addition, accretion, increment, accession, access; augmentation, supplement, annex, annexation, appendage, appendix, addendum, adjunct; multiplication, doubling, redoubling, trebling, tripling, quadrupling.
3. development, elaboration, fleshing out, stretching out; expatiation, descant, discourse; prolixity, verbosity; clarification, explication, explanation, detail, elucidation; illustration, demonstration, exemplification, typification.
4. exaggeration, overstatement, overcharging, overstressing; hyperbolization, overdrawing; magnification, enhancement, enrichment, deepening, heightening; romanticization, embroidering, stretching, straining; intensification, concentration, maximization; escalation, acceleration, aggravation.
amplifier, n.speaker, loudspeaker, Inf.amp, SI.