What's the difference between overmuch and too?

Overmuch


Definition:

  • (a.) Too much.
  • (adv.) In too great a degree; too much.
  • (n.) An excess; a surplus.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the mid-20th century, the customary political apathy of youth did not matter overmuch.
  • (2) Perhaps some readers don't weep overmuch when newspapers have to pay up, but the price of defeat in this sort of baroque legal game is constant for both sides.
  • (3) Therefore his work is somehow tainted, so not worth overmuch reaction, sitting somewhere beyond the pale.
  • (4) Even if his notices were sometimes prosaic, dwelt overmuch on retailing plots and showed more interest in a production's literary, rather than acting, values, Shulman wrote with clarity, good sense and to the point.
  • (5) If, as was said, too many of us ached, longed, strove to be be be be White White White White WHITE … If (as was said) many of us boasted overmuch of the blood des blancs that for centuries had found blatant or surreptitious ways to flow, course, and trickle tepidly through our veins and arteries (cephalic, aortal, renal, femoral, jugular, subclavian, and superior mesenteric)… If we placed too high a value on the looks, manners, and morals called the birthright of the Anglo-Saxon… White people wanted to be white just as much as we did.
  • (6) And the web-based march of British journalism across the world can leave home bases scantily covered, as though those who live there don't matter overmuch.

Too


Definition:

  • (adv.) Over; more than enough; -- noting excess; as, a thing is too long, too short, or too wide; too high; too many; too much.
  • (adv.) Likewise; also; in addition.

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