immensely en · ADV
Pronunciation
- /ɪˈmɛnsli/
- (UK) audio
Etymology
Etymology tree English immense Middle English -ly English -ly English immensely From immense + -ly.
Meanings
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Greatly; hugely; extremely; vastly; to a great extent.
I enjoyed the party immensely.
Then, too, he was always ready to constitute himself a hostile army or a band of marauding Indians on the shortest possible notice: in brief, a distinctly able man, with talents, so far as we could judge, immensely above the majority.
1895, Kenneth Graham, The Golden Age, London, page 3:This question is immensely difficult.
The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about "creating compelling content", or offering services that let you "stay up to date with what your friends are doing"[…]and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.
2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “Conscious computing: how to take control of your life online”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, archived from the original on 08 Jan 2023, page 27:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more immensely | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most immensely | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
Relateds
Translations (21)
fi valtavasti (hugely; extremely; vastly) · cmn 很 (hugely; extremely; vastly) · fi suunnattomasti (hugely; extremely; vastly) · es inmensamente (hugely; extremely; vastly) · bg много (hugely; extremely; vastly) · hu mérhetetlenül (hugely; extremely; vastly) · fr énormément (hugely; extremely; vastly) · cmn 非常 (hugely; extremely; vastly) · pdt onjehea (hugely; extremely; vastly) · pl bezbrzeżnie (hugely; extremely; vastly) · ru безме́рно (hugely; extremely; vastly) · gl inmensamente (hugely; extremely; vastly) · cmn 十分 (hugely; extremely; vastly) · bg необикновено (hugely; extremely; vastly) · fr immensément (hugely; extremely; vastly) · pl niezmiernie (hugely; extremely; vastly) · hu végtelenül (hugely; extremely; vastly) · ca immensament (hugely; extremely; vastly) · nrf înmensement (hugely; extremely; vastly) · pt imensamente (hugely; extremely; vastly) · hu rendkívül (hugely; extremely; vastly)