immensely
70
3.5
- adverb
- /ɪˈmɛnslɪ/
:
enormemente
- I am immensely proud of the progress I have made this year.
- immensely popular
- benefit immensely
- immensely powerful
It would help immensely and it spoils Carval.
- It would help immensely and it spoils Carval.
- Let's start with a an immensely dark topic, nuclear war.
- In short, Koreans care immensely about education.
- God respects free will immensely, which causes a ton of problems.
- The expanded discussions on Patreon help me immensely with my minimalist goals.
- I mean, they're just, you know, they're immensely talented.
- This photo shocks me immensely and I'd like to explain why.
- So recovering from addiction is obviously immensely difficult for a lot of people.
- Again, you are not hurt by waiting, but you can hurt yourself immensely by moving too quick.
- He's in hotel service, immensely capable, practical and resourceful.
- So it's immensely valuable as a teaching tool.
Examples
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Their influence has, in the end, proved immensely important; and so might their example.
Academic text (1992) -
I enjoyed your performance immensely, Mr. Tyronne.
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I, I find, I find it immensely moving.
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You mean the program? Yeah, OK, because your program is immensely successful. I love it.
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l must tell you, we enjoyed them immensely and look forward to seeing many more, now that we're in London.
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In return, your business will grow immensely.
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So this is a sort of beautiful, immensely satisfying story, OK?
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So recovering from addiction is obviously immensely difficult for a lot of people.
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In short, Koreans care immensely about education.
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I'm sure if he was here he'd be immensely proud of you.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
To a very great degree
922
1.0
To a very high degree, often about skill or rank
584
2.3
To a very great degree
354
1.8
Shows that something is done a lot
351
1.4
To show strong feeling or degree
350
1.0
By a very large amount
236
3.6
Completely, to show that something is very strong or very great
230
1.4
To a very great degree, often before words like cold or sad
151
4.7
By a very large amount that makes it hard to refuse
128
3.5
To a very large degree
111
1.0
In a very good and impressive way
110
4.2
Very strongly in a way that changes people's feelings or thoughts
103
3.0
By a very large amount
84
2.1
To a very great degree
80
4.1
To a much higher level than usual
57
4.6
To a very great degree
50
3.9
To a very great degree
47
3.4
To a great degree
26
4.5
To a very high degree
21
3.5
To a very great degree
17
5.2
To a very great degree
12
3.6
To a very high degree
10
5.4
To a very great degree that you cannot count
7
7.5
To a much greater degree than is normal
6
7.4
To a very large degree
5
5.4
To make a describing word much stronger
3
5.8
To a very large degree
1
4.9
In a way that is much better than usual and impresses people
1
7.6
By a very large amount that cannot be measured
1
8.4
To a very high degree
To a very large degree
Antonyms
How Much
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Immensely comes from old parts in- 'not' and mensus 'measured', so it originally meant 'beyond measure'. Think of the English word measure: if something is immensely large or important, you cannot easily measure it, so it means 'very much'.