enormously

adverb

enor·​mous·​ly i-ˈnȯr-məs-lē 

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: to a very great or enormous degree or extent : exceedingly, vastly

an enormously popular performer

an area of business that has grown enormously in recent years

an enormously complicated problem

Synonyms

• achingly
• almighty
• archly
• awful
• awfully
• badly
• beastly
• blisteringly
• bone
• colossally
• corking
• cracking
• damn
• damned
• dang
• deadly
• desperately
• eminently
• especially
• ever
• exceedingly
• exceeding
• extra
• extremely
• fabulously
• fantastically
• far
• fiercely
• filthy
• frightfully
• full
• greatly
• heavily
• highly
• hugely
• immensely
• incredibly
• intensely
• jolly
• majorly
• mightily
• mighty
• monstrous [chiefly dialect]
• mortally
• most
• much
• particularly
• passing
• rattling
• real
• really
• right
• roaring
• roaringly
• seriously
• severely
• so
• sore
• sorely
• spanking
• specially
• stinking
• such
• super
• supremely
• surpassingly
• terribly
• that
• thumping
• too
• unco
• uncommonly
• vastly
• very
• vitally
• way
• whacking
• wicked
• wildly

Examples of enormously in a Sentence

an enormously entertaining film

the neighbors have been enormously helpful during this difficult time

Recent Examples on the Web

Extracting myself form the past and moving into the future has been enormously liberating and inspiring. —Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 24 Apr. 2025

She’s aided enormously by Lan, who first receives a warning that Lanfear is in the area from Melindhra, his countrywoman from back home who turns out to be a repentant Darkfriend. —Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2025

The price clients pay varies enormously, says Butterly, starting at around $4,000 and going up from there. —Emma Whitford, Forbes.com, 17 Apr. 2025

Regenerative farming allows synthetic chemicals to save crops only when economic viability would otherwise be lost. While cotton is farmed worldwide, the manner and social consequences of farming differ enormously. —Brooke Roberts-Islam, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1668, in the meaning defined above