VERY MUCH LIKE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does very much like mean? 

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

1. in a similar way

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• VERY MUCH LIKE (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a similar way

Synonyms:

much as; very much like

 Context examples 

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)

You may say what you chuse—but your countenance testifies that your thoughts on this subject are very much like mine.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

IF that’s the case, said the bear, I should very much like to see his royal palace; come, take me thither.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, said the lady as we entered a well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had been laid out, I should very much like to ask you one or two plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain answer.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But if my colleague of Hampshire has no scruples about its being brought off within his jurisdiction, I should very much like to see the fight, with which he spurred his horse up an adjacent knoll, from which he thought that he might gain the best view of the proceedings.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Her taste for drawing was not superior; though whenever she could obtain the outside of a letter from her mother or seize upon any other odd piece of paper, she did what she could in that way, by drawing houses and trees, hens and chickens, all very much like one another.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

The wedding was very much like other weddings, where the parties have no taste for finery or parade; and Mrs. Elton, from the particulars detailed by her husband, thought it all extremely shabby, and very inferior to her own.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

It is so cold, so very cold—and looks and feels so very much like snow, that if it were to any other place or with any other party, I should really try not to go out to-day—and dissuade my father from venturing; but as he has made up his mind, and does not seem to feel the cold himself, I do not like to interfere, as I know it would be so great a disappointment to Mr. and Mrs. Weston.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)