VERY MUCH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does very much mean? 

• VERY MUCH (adverb)
  The adverb VERY MUCH has 1 sense:

1. to a very great degree or extent

  Familiarity information: VERY MUCH used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VERY MUCH (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To a very great degree or extent

Synonyms:

a good deal; a great deal; a lot; lots; much; very much

Context example:

this would help a great deal

 Context examples 

I told her I liked it very much.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Oh, he might look very much like you.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"I should very much like to see Lyme again," said Anne.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Oh sir, they do care, very very much!

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I should like it very much.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He was very much alive, very happy, and very proud of himself.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

But he will be very much surprised that Mrs. Grant should ask Fanny at all.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

But you should not persuade me that I think so very much about Mr. Tilney, for perhaps I may never see him again.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

“Not very much,” was his confession.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

There was once a king’s son who had a bride whom he loved very much.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)