immensely

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/ɪˈmɛnsli/

adverb

Greatly; hugely; extremely; vastly; to a great extent.

“I enjoyed the party immensely.”

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Meanings

adverbimmensely (comparative more immensely, superlative most immensely)

comparative more immensely · superlative most immensely

  1. Greatly; hugely; extremely; vastly; to a great extent.

    I enjoyed the party immensely.

    3 more examples

    This question is immensely difficult.

    Then, too, he was always ready to constitute himself a hostile army or a band of marauding Indians on the shortest possible notice: in brief, a distinctly able man, with talents, so far as we could judge, immensely above the majority.

    1895, Kenneth Graham, The Golden Age, London, page 3

    The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about "creating compelling content", or offering services that let you "stay up to date with what your friends are doing"[…]and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.

    2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “Conscious computing: how to take control of your life online”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, archived from the original on 08 Jan 2023, page 27

Synonyms & antonyms

adverbto an exceedingly great extent or degree

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Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

Translations

Bulgarian необикновено, много
  • необикновено (neobiknoveno)hugely; extremely; vastly
  • много (mnogo)hugely; extremely; vastly
Catalan immensament
  • immensamenthugely; extremely; vastly
Chinese Mandarin 非常, 十分
  • 非常 (fēicháng)hugely; extremely; vastly
  • 十分 (shífēn)hugely; extremely; vastly
  • 很 (hěn)hugely; extremely; vastly
Finnish valtavasti, suunnattomasti
  • valtavastihugely; extremely; vastly
  • suunnattomastihugely; extremely; vastly
French énormément, immensément
  • énormémenthugely; extremely; vastly
  • immensémenthugely; extremely; vastly
Hungarian mérhetetlenül, végtelenül
  • mérhetetlenülhugely; extremely; vastly
  • végtelenülhugely; extremely; vastly
  • rendkívülhugely; extremely; vastly
Polish niezmiernie, bezbrzeżnie
  • niezmierniehugely; extremely; vastly
  • bezbrzeżniehugely; extremely; vastly
Portuguese imensamente
  • imensamentehugely; extremely; vastly
Russian безме́рно
  • безме́рно (bezmérno)hugely; extremely; vastly
Spanish inmensamente
  • inmensamentehugely; extremely; vastly
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APA

immensely. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/immensely

MLA

“immensely.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/immensely. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “immensely,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/immensely.

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