Meaning of so | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Then, so.
2. To the (explicitly stated) extent.
   not-comparable
3. To the (implied) extent.
   not-comparable
4. Very (positive or negative clause).
   not-comparable
5. Very much.
   not-comparable
6. at all (negative clause).
   informal, not-comparable
7. In the same manner or to the same extent as aforementioned; likewise, also.
   not-comparable
8. Indeed.
   not-comparable
9. To such an extent or degree; as.
   not-comparable

Equivalents

Examples

“It was so hot outside that all the plants died.”

“He was so good, they hired him on the spot.”

“You behaviour so incensed me that I even thought of firing you.”

“It was so cold a day that I could hardly breathe outside.”

“So ridiculously did I do in the exam that mom grounded me for a month.”

“Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage’[…].” So I started to back away again into the bushes. But I hadn't backed more'n a couple of yards when I see something so amazing that I couldn't help scooching down behind the bayberries and looking at it.”

“Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.”

“I need a piece of cloth so long. [= this long]”

“We drove back to the office with some concern on my part at the prospect of so large a case. Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke.”

“I feel so much better now.”

“I so nearly lost my temper.”

“It’s not so bad. [i.e. it's acceptable]”

“Captain Edward Carlisle[…]felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze,[…]; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.”

“But I so want to see the Queen when she visits our town!”

“Molly the dairymaid came a little way from the rickyard, and said she would pluck the pigeon that very night after work. She was always ready to do anything for us boys; and we could never quite make out why they scolded her so for an idle hussy indoors. It seemed so unjust.”

“I so wanted to be Jess Harley again.”

“Yeah! Not eating is so 90’s!”

“That is so not true!”

“Just as you have the right to your free speech, so I have the right to mine.  Many people say she's the world's greatest athlete, but I don't think so.  "I can count backwards from one hundred." "So can I."”

“He wants to eat now. So does she.”

“"Good morrow to thee, jolly fellow," quoth Robin, "thou seemest happy this merry morn." ¶ "Ay, that am I," quoth the jolly Butcher, "and why should I not be so? Am I not hale in wind and limb? Have I not the bonniest lass in all Nottinghamshire? And lastly, am I not to be married to her on Thursday next in sweet Locksley Town?"”

“The work thus done has probably been of the greatest value to the human race; but, just as in other cases it has sometimes happened that the effort to do a certain work has resulted in the end in an unbalanced exaggeration so here.”

“It was a goal that meant West Ham won on their first appearance at Wembley in 31 years, in doing so becoming the first team since Leicester in 1996 to bounce straight back to the Premier League through the play-offs.”

“it's okay to be different 'Cause baby, so am I”

“‘Look, it’s just stopped raining.’ ‘So it has!’”

“‘There are two more.’ ‘So there are.’”

“so far as;  so long as;  so much as”

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