such
About 801.15 uses per million words.
Meaning
- determiner Like this, that, these, those; used to make a comparison with something implied by context.
I’ve never seen such clouds in the sky before.
- determiner Any.
the above address or at such other address as may be provided
- determiner Used as an intensifier roughly equivalent to very much (of), quite or rather.
Unfortunately, it wasn't such a good holiday as we thought it would be.
- determiner Used with gradable noun phrases to form exclamations.
Such hypocrisy!
- determiner A certain; representing the object as already particularized in terms which are not mentioned.
- pronoun A person, a thing, people, or things like the one or ones already mentioned.
Such is life, such as it is.
- noun Something being indicated that is similar to something else.
Similar words
specified much so much such as such that analogous same similar comparable nature
Often followed by
as a an that cases is things was circumstances
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