immensely

English

Etymology

immense +‎ -ly

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈmɛnsli/

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Adverb

immensely (comparative more immensely, superlative most immensely)

1. Greatly; hugely; extremely; vastly; to a great extent.

   I enjoyed the party immensely.

   This question is immensely difficult.

   • 1895, Kenneth Graham, The Golden Age, London, page 3:

     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.

   • 2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 27:

     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.

Related terms

• immensity

Translations

hugely; extremely; vastly

• Bulgarian: необикновено (bg) (neobiknoveno), много (bg) (mnogo)
• Catalan: immensament (ca)
• Finnish: valtavasti (fi), suunnattomasti
• French: énormément (fr), immensément (fr)
• Hungarian: mérhetetlenül (hu), végtelenül (hu), rendkívül (hu)
• Norman: înmensement
• Plautdietsch: onjehea
• Polish: niezmiernie (pl), bezbrzeżnie (pl)
• Portuguese: imensamente
• Spanish: inmensamente (es)