IMMEASURABLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does immeasurably mean? 

• IMMEASURABLY (adverb)
  The adverb IMMEASURABLY has 2 senses:

1. to an immeasurable degree; beyond measurement

2. without bounds

  Familiarity information: IMMEASURABLY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMMEASURABLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To an immeasurable degree; beyond measurement

Context example:

the war left him immeasurably fearful of what man can do to man

Antonym:

measurably (to a measurable degree)

Pertainym:

immeasurable (impossible to measure)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Without bounds

Synonyms:

boundlessly; immeasurably; infinitely

Context example:

he is infinitely wealthy

Pertainym:

immeasurable (impossible to measure)

 Context examples 

It spoke to my spirit: immeasurably distant was the tone, yet so near, it whispered in my heart—My daughter, flee temptation.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Sometimes I have endeavoured to discover what quality it is which he possesses that elevates him so immeasurably above any other person I ever knew.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

He compared the tale, as yet unwritten, with the tales of the sea-writers, and he felt it to be immeasurably superior.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He fascinated me immeasurably, and I feared him immeasurably.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Of animal life there was no movement amid the majestic vaulted aisles which stretched from us as we walked, but a constant movement far above our heads told of that multitudinous world of snake and monkey, bird and sloth, which lived in the sunshine, and looked down in wonder at our tiny, dark, stumbling figures in the obscure depths immeasurably below them.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)