Meaning
よほど (yohodo) is a bonus vocabulary word meaning “very, by far”.
Example sentences 11
今日の 遠足はよほど 楽しかったらしい。
The field trip today must have been very fun.
彼はその 話がよほど 面白かったようだ。
It seems that he was very much amused by the story.
余程重大な情報がもたらされたと考えられる。
It was considered that extremely important information was brought by Ienushi.
よっぽど 印象に 残る 事じゃないと 覚えてないんだよね。
Unless it's something fairly impressive, I won't remember it.
あいつがガッツポーズするなんて、よっぽど 嬉しかったんだろうな。
It must have been something really big for him to strike a triumphant pose like that.
よほど 重要な 用向きでやってきたことが、 彼の 顔色で 分かった。
I could tell by the look on his face that he had come on very important business.
購入日から余程日があいていなければ、法要の際に一緒に依頼することが多い。
Priests are often required to hold this consecration ceremony at the same time as hoyo (memorial services) if the date of the latter is not very far from the former's.
喜色 満面の 笑みを 浮かべているけど、 彼、よっぽど 嬉しいことがあったんだろうな。
You could tell by the ear-to-ear grin that came to his face that he really had something to smile about.
要するに、前座から二つ目に昇進すると、(余程仕事をとってこない限り)収入がかなり減ってしまう。
So, when a zenza is promoted to a futatsume, he has much less income (unless he gets quite a lot of work).
大口屋暁雨の存在の大きさは余程のものだったらしく、明治になると彼自身が歌舞伎の題材にされている。
Gyouu OGUCHIYA seemed to have had such an impact on Kabuki that he himself became a motif of Kabuki during the Meiji period.
これは余程御注意なさらないといけない」「高島嘉右衛門「占い」は「売らない」が東京だけで数十軒も看板を揚げて、ついに警視庁に召喚されたことは...(中略)...こうした横着者が市中にたくさんなるのである」と世の中を憂いだ記述がある(鉤括弧部は引用。
This must be carefully noted.' 'Several dozens of signboards in Kaemon TAKASHIMA, in Tokyo alone, indicating the pun, 'uranai' (fortune-telling) and 'uranai' (not selling) were put up, finally the police were summoned (omitted), such kind of pickers were many in the city' which was a pity (the part in quotation mark is a citation).