INSOMUCH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does insomuch mean? 

• INSOMUCH (adverb)
  The adverb INSOMUCH has 1 sense:

1. to such an extent or degree; so

  Familiarity information: INSOMUCH used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INSOMUCH (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To such an extent or degree; so

 Context examples 

The news of what had happened soon spread through the town; insomuch that as I passed along the streets next morning, I overheard the people speaking of it at their doors.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

But I have since found that the sea Yahoos are apt, like the land ones, to become new-fangled in their words, which the latter change every year; insomuch, as I remember upon each return to my own country their old dialect was so altered, that I could hardly understand the new.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

All their elasticity was departed, and I never saw them half so wretched as on this night; insomuch that when the bell rang, and Mr. Micawber walked with me to the lodge, and parted from me there with a blessing, I felt quite afraid to leave him by himself, he was so profoundly miserable.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

But my little vanity, and Steerforth's help, urged me on somehow; and without saving me from much, if anything, in the way of punishment, made me, for the time I was there, an exception to the general body, insomuch that I did steadily pick up some crumbs of knowledge.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)