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IMMENSELY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

To an exceedingly great extent or degree

Example:

was immensely more important to the project as a scientist than as an administrator

Synonyms:

immensely; vastly

Classified under:

Adverbs

Pertainym:

immense (unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope)

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 Context examples: 

There it stands, on its two hind-legs, club in hand, immensely potential, passionate and wrathful and loving, god and mystery and power all wrapped up and around by flesh that bleeds when it is torn and that is good to eat like any flesh.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

“I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can reward you. This ring—”

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Such will, of course, immensely simplify our labour, and the sooner the matter is attended to the better.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

It took his fancy immensely, and he put it on his mantlepiece as an article of virtue, so it was rather a failure after all.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

All of us in the office enjoyed it immensely, and, as you see, it was given the place of honor and immediate publication.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

But to me it seems immensely practical, and I fancy that Brunton took the same view.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have been commissioned to recover this immensely important paper.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Immensely better!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

If you could send her into the cellar on some errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate matters immensely.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The house is very large and of all periods back, I should say, to mediæval times, for one part is of stone immensely thick, with only a few windows high up and heavily barred with iron. It looks like part of a keep, and is close to an old chapel or church.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)