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ENORMOUSLY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Extremely
Example:
he was enormously popular
Synonyms:
enormously; hugely; staggeringly; tremendously
Classified under:
Pertainym:
enormous (extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power or degree)
Context examples:
My own reading of the situation for what it is worth— he inflated his chest enormously and looked insolently around him at the words—is that evolution has advanced under the peculiar conditions of this country up to the vertebrate stage, the old types surviving and living on in company with the newer ones.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I have been leading up to an enormously important day this month, March 21, when Mars and Jupiter will conjoin in Capricorn, this same eleventh house of hopes, wishes, friendships, and humanitarian projects.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
It was a dull gray landscape, and as I gradually deciphered the details of it I realized that it represented a long and enormously high line of cliffs exactly like an immense cataract seen in the distance, with a sloping, tree-clad plain in the foreground.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
His family were enormously wealthy—even in college his freedom with money was a matter for reproach—but now he'd left Chicago and come east in a fashion that rather took your breath away: for instance he'd brought down a string of polo ponies from Lake Forest.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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