IMMENSELY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does immensely mean? 

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

1. to an exceedingly great extent or degree

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMMENSELY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To an exceedingly great extent or degree

Synonyms:

immensely; vastly

Context example:

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

Pertainym:

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

 Context examples 

It quite took their breath away, and they stared first at the table and then at their mother, who looked as if she enjoyed it immensely.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I had reached that stage of sleepiness when Peggotty seemed to swell and grow immensely large.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He became immensely wary, for he was wise with knowledge of the low cunning and foul vileness of his kind.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The fact was that I had just seen something which filled me with surprise and at the same time narrowed the field of our inquiry immensely.

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

He is immensely strong, for he was more like a wild beast than a man.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I should be immensely obliged to you.

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

Not to mention the agrochemicals used in agriculture - their discharge on rivers contributes immensely to fish mortality.

(Amazon fish ‘face new threats’, SciDev.Net)

Immensely tall she looked to me from my low station in the coracle.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

In the 1970s, phosphine was discovered in the atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn—immensely hot gas giants.

(Poisonous Earthly Molecule May Be Sign of Extraterrestrial Life, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

He was immensely tickled by his own adventures and laughed heartily as he recounted them.

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