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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. of so extreme a degree or extent;
- Example: "such weeping"
- Example: "so much weeping"
- Example: "such a help"
- Example: "such grief"
- Example: "never dreamed of such beauty"


ADVERB (1)

1. to so extreme a degree;
- Example: "he is such a baby"
- Example: "Such rich people!"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Such \Such\, a. [OE. such, sich, sech, sik, swich, swilch, swulch, swilc, swulc, AS. swelc, swilc, swylc; akin to OFries. selik, D. zulk, OS. sulic, OHG. sulih, solih, G. solch, Icel. sl[imac]kr, OSw. salik, Sw. slik, Dan. slig, Goth. swaleiks; originally meaning, so shaped. [root]192. See So, Like, a., and cf. Which.] 1. Of that kind; of the like kind; like; resembling; similar; as, we never saw such a day; -- followed by that or as introducing the word or proposition which defines the similarity, or the standard of comparison; as, the books are not such that I can recommend them, or, not such as I can recommend; these apples are not such as those we saw yesterday; give your children such precepts as tend to make them better. [1913 Webster] And in his time such a conqueror That greater was there none under the sun. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] His misery was such that none of the bystanders could refrain from weeping. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster] Note: The indefinite article a or an never precedes such, but is placed between it and the noun to which it refers; as, such a man; such an honor. The indefinite adjective some, several, one, few, many, all, etc., precede such; as, one such book is enough; all such people ought to be avoided; few such ideas were then held. [1913 Webster] 2. Having the particular quality or character specified. [1913 Webster] That thou art happy, owe to God; That thou continuest such, owe to thyself. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 3. The same that; -- with as; as, this was the state of the kingdom at such time as the enemy landed. "[It] hath such senses as we have." --Shak. [1913 Webster] 4. Certain; -- representing the object as already particularized in terms which are not mentioned. [1913 Webster] In rushed one and tells him such a knight Is new arrived. --Daniel. [1913 Webster] To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year. --James iv. 13. [1913 Webster] Note: Such is used pronominally. "He was the father of such as dwell in tents." --Gen. iv. 20. "Such as I are free in spirit when our limbs are chained." --Sir W. Scott. Such is also used before adjectives joined to substantives; as, the fleet encountered such a terrible storm that it put back. "Everything was managed with so much care, and such excellent order was observed." --De Foe. [1913 Webster] Temple sprung from a family which . . . long after his death produced so many eminent men, and formed such distinguished alliances, that, etc. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster] Such is used emphatically, without the correlative. [1913 Webster] Now will he be mocking: I shall have such a life. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Such was formerly used with numerals in the sense of times as much or as many; as, such ten, or ten times as many. [1913 Webster] Such and such, or Such or such, certain; some; -- used to represent the object indefinitely, as already particularized in one way or another, or as being of one kind or another. "In such and such a place shall be my camp." --2 Kings vi. 8. "Sovereign authority may enact a law commanding such and such an action." --South. Such like or Such character, of the like kind. [1913 Webster] And many other such like things ye do. --Mark vii. 8. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

such adv 1: to so extreme a degree; "he is such a baby"; "Such rich people!" adj 1: of so extreme a degree or extent; "such weeping"; "so much weeping"; "such a help"; "such grief"; "never dreamed of such beauty"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

52 Moby Thesaurus words for "such": aforementioned, aforesaid, akin, alike, ally, alter ego, analogon, analogous, analogue, associate, brother, close copy, close match, cognate, companion, comparable, complement, congenator, congener, coordinate, correlate, correlative, correspondent, corresponding, counterpart, equivalent, fellow, image, kindred spirit, like, likeness, mate, near duplicate, obverse, parallel, pendant, picture, reciprocal, said, second self, similar, similitude, simulacrum, sister, soul mate, suchlike, tally, that, the like, the like of, the likes of, twin