Meanings
- not comparableGreatly; to a huge extent.
It became hugely successful.
3 more examples
This new movie is hugely inspired from the 1930s cowboy movies.
She turned around, grinning hugely.
But the row highlighted the fall from grace of the ethnically diverse women Sarkozy once promoted but later cast aside, who are now rebelling. The former young sports minister, Rama Yade, outspoken and hugely popular, has not only quit the government: she has left Sarkozy's party.
2011 December 14, Angelique Chrisafis, “Rachida Dati accuses French PM of sexism and elitism”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 02 Nov 2023
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbvastly
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Middle Englishhugely
- Englishhugely
From Middle English hugely, hugeliche, equivalent to huge + -ly.
More words from Middle English
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian извънредно много
- извънредно много (izvănredno mnogo)hugely
Chinese Mandarin 大大
- 大大 (dàdà)hugely
Danish mægtig
- mægtighugely
Finnish valtavasti
- valtavastihugely
French colossalement
- colossalementhugely
Italian vastamente
- vastamentehugely
Polish ogromnie
- ogromniehugely
Russian весьма́, о́чень
- весьма́ (vesʹmá)hugely
- о́чень (óčenʹ)hugely
- чрезвыча́йно (črezvyčájno)hugely
- си́льно (sílʹno)hugely
- стра́шно (strášno)hugely
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Cite this entry
hugely. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hugely
“hugely.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hugely. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “hugely,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hugely.
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