multal

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Examples
Many students failed the test. We greatly prefer dogs to cats. The cake had a lot of icing.

multal (not comparable)

(linguistics) Expressing a large (but not maximal) quantity or degree. [from 1970s]
- 1973, Revue des langues vivantes‎^[1]:
  Finally, the wish to classify and subdivide into further subcategories at times leads the authors to use labels that border on jargon (e.g. multal and paucal groups of pronouns, p. 220).
- 2016, New Medievalisms‎^[2]:
  The next section includes the study of the role of metonymy in the motivation of the lexical-semantic changes leading to the present-day multal quantifier sense of lot in the context of the quasi-determiner a lot of;