ENORMOUSLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does enormously mean? 

• ENORMOUSLY (adverb)
  The adverb ENORMOUSLY has 1 sense:

1. extremely

  Familiarity information: ENORMOUSLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENORMOUSLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Extremely

Synonyms:

enormously; hugely; staggeringly; tremendously

Context example:

he was enormously popular

Pertainym:

enormous (extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power or degree)

 Context examples 

Now things will become enormously easier.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Instead of being ruined, my good sir, you will find that your reputation has been enormously enhanced.

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

I may add that he is enormously rich, and whatever his whims may be he can very easily satisfy them.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He had an enormously massive genial manner, which was almost as overpowering as his violence.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The liability of shipping another such sea was enormously increased by the water that weighed the boat down and robbed it of its buoyancy.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The enormously thick walls and tiny windows of this part had in the last century driven the family into building the new wing, and the old one was used now as a storehouse and a cellar, when it was used at all.

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

The secrecy with which everything had been carried on between them, was rationally treated as enormously heightening the crime, because, had any suspicion of it occurred to the others, proper measures would have been taken to prevent the marriage; and he called on Elinor to join with him in regretting that Lucy's engagement with Edward had not rather been fulfilled, than that she should thus be the means of spreading misery farther in the family.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

This person (who had thus, from the first moment of his entrance, struck in me what I can only describe as a disgustful curiosity) was dressed in a fashion that would have made an ordinary person laughable; his clothes, that is to say, although they were of rich and sober fabric, were enormously too large for him in every measurement—the trousers hanging on his legs and rolled up to keep them from the ground, the waist of the coat below his haunches, and the collar sprawling wide upon his shoulders.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

This would be an enormously important day for you take action on a communication project.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

He made for the factory in which he worked, and he knew that he had only a few minutes in which to conceal this enormously valuable prize, which would otherwise be found on him when he was searched.

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