enormously

adverb

enor·​mous·​ly i-ˈnȯr-məs-lē 

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: to a very great or enormous degree or extent : exceedingly, vastly

an enormously popular performer

an area of business that has grown enormously in recent years

an enormously complicated problem

Synonyms

• achingly
• almighty
• archly
• awful
• awfully
• badly
• beastly
• blisteringly
• bone
• colossally
• corking
• cracking
• damn
• damned
• dang
• deadly
• desperately
• eminently
• especially
• ever
• exceedingly
• exceeding
• extra
• extremely
• fabulously
• fantastically
• far
• fiercely
• filthy
• frightfully
• full
• greatly
• heavily
• highly
• hugely
• immensely
• incredibly
• intensely
• jolly
• majorly
• mightily
• mighty
• monstrous [chiefly dialect]
• mortally
• most
• much
• particularly
• passing
• rattling
• real
• really
• right
• roaring
• roaringly
• seriously
• severely
• so
• sore
• sorely
• spanking
• specially
• stinking
• such
• super
• supremely
• surpassingly
• terribly
• that
• thumping
• too
• unco
• uncommonly
• vastly
• very
• vitally
• way
• whacking
• wicked
• wildly

Examples of enormously in a Sentence

an enormously entertaining film

the neighbors have been enormously helpful during this difficult time

Recent Examples on the Web

The company has also grown enormously since Altman’s brief ouster. —Chloe Berger, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2024

And then there are the home appliance regs coming from the Biden-Harris team which won’t change anything climate-wise but will raise prices of the appliances enormously. —Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 21 Sep. 2024

The optic nerve was still enormously swollen despite the five-day course of IV steroids. —Katie Gutierrez, TIME, 19 Sep. 2024

Even though the Jews have made enormously desirable what formerly wasn’t, Hamas et al obviously want the land back. —John Tamny, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1668, in the meaning defined above