TREMENDOUSLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tremendously mean? 

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

1. extremely

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TREMENDOUSLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Extremely

Synonyms:

enormously; hugely; staggeringly; tremendously

Context example:

he was enormously popular

Pertainym:

tremendous (extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers)

 Context examples 

With the bursting open of the door, the noise of their howling had increased tremendously.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

You think so now, but there'll come a time when you will care for somebody, and you'll love him tremendously, and live and die for him.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Remember that the Witch is Wicked—tremendously Wicked—and ought to be killed.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

This last came to him as a surprise; it was tremendously indicative of the highness of their caste, of the enormous distance that stretched between her and him.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It was a tremendously virile and yet sinister face which was turned towards us.

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

Round after round he scrambled his way in, slap-bang, right and left, every hit tremendously sent home.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But through a quirk of nature that tremendously amplifies the star’s feeble glow, astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope were able to pinpoint this faraway star and set a new distance record.

(Hubble Uncovers the Farthest Star Ever Seen, NASA)

"I suppose it would be profanation to eat anything in this spick-and-span bower, so as I'm tremendously hungry, I propose an adjournment," he added presently.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

They shout and gesticulate tremendously but cannot agree, and Rodrigo is about to bear away the exhausted Zara, when the timid servant enters with a letter and a bag from Hagar, who has mysteriously disappeared.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

She didn't answer. Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)