EVER SO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ever so mean? 

• EVER SO (adverb)
  The adverb EVER SO has 1 sense:

1. (intensifier for adjectives) very

  Familiarity information: EVER SO used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EVER SO (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(intensifier for adjectives) very

Synonyms:

ever; ever so

Context example:

she was ever so friendly

Domain usage:

intensifier; intensive (a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies)

 Context examples 

You may be a little older in years, but I'm ever so much older in feeling, Teddy.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Why am I ever so to you, when I should think of nothing but how to be grateful, and to make you happy!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Nay, I cannot call to mind that we ever so much as drew sword at the place.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I daren’t ’ardly give them their feed, for, if they was to thicken out just ever so little—

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“How happy am I!” cried he; “nobody was ever so lucky as I.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Thank you ever so much for saving my life.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Lucy is ever so much better. Last night she slept well all night, and did not disturb me once.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

She was no longer herself but a woman, with a woman's clinging need; and though she leaned ever so lightly, the need seemed satisfied.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

A prize indeed would Kellynch Hall be to him; rather the greatest prize of all, let him have taken ever so many before; hey, Shepherd?

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Nothing, but to grow more worthy of him, whose intentions and judgment had been ever so superior to her own.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)