Meanings
- not comparableExtremely, greatly: to an enormous degree.
He was enormously popular.
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Gloria is enormously pleased with our progress.
The paddles were enormously versatile, serving as radio-antenna masts, shovels, ice prods, snow knives, and potential argument settlers—whoever had one in his hand at the time would win.
1989 May, Jeff MacInnis, “Braving the Northwest Passage”, in National Geographic, volume 175, number 5, page 592Fraser Hunter, iron age and Roman curator at NMS and a leading authority on carnyces, described the new find as “extraordinary” and said it would “add enormously to our understanding of the iron age world.
2026 January 7, Esther Addley, “‘Extraordinary’ iron age war trumpet find in Britain may have Boudicca links”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 07 Jan 2026 - not comparableShockingly.
Synonyms & antonyms
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adverbvastly
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Origin
Translations
Catalan enormement
- enormementto an enormous degree
Chinese Mandarin 大大
- 大大 (dàdà)to an enormous degree
Esperanto enorme
- enormeto an enormous degree
Finnish valtavasti, suunnattomasti
- valtavastito an enormous degree
- suunnattomastito an enormous degree
French énormément
- énormémentto an enormous degree
Italian enormemente
- enormementeto an enormous degree
Portuguese enormemente
- enormementeto an enormous degree
Spanish enormemente
- enormementeto an enormous degree
Cite this entry
enormously. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/enormously
“enormously.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/enormously. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “enormously,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/enormously.
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