* he doesn't look like so much a man as a woman.

What does "so" indicate in this sentence ?

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It is similar to “as”. Combined with “much”, like “so much” or “as much” it indicates a comparison. Similar to “more” and combined with “doesn’t”, it becomes negative and reverses the meaning to “less”. So we could read the sentence: “He looks less like a man than a woman” or “He looks more like a woman than a man.”

그는 남자보다 여자 같다