tremendously

adverb

tre·​men·​dous·​ly tri-ˈmen-dəs-lē How to pronounce tremendously (audio)
: to a great or tremendous extent : extremely
a tremendously important decision
a tremendously impressive performance
It was tremendously depressing for me to work there, and it happened that I was not enjoying going to work, so I requested a transfer.Sydney Lewis
In between is the real movie: the kinetic beauty of parkour, captured in tremendously enjoyable high-speed sequences that, once again, draw energy from the photogenic beauty of everyday New York City landscapes.Lisa Schwarzbaum

Examples of tremendously in a Sentence

I'm tremendously upset I didn't get into that university
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Wicked, for example, lives in a fantasy world, and that helps tremendously. Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 2 Oct. 2025 Combined audiences for two Monday Night Football games are still greater than one, but not tremendously so. Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 29 Sep. 2025 Maraval noted that the role of Hollywood has changed tremendously across the last decade, pointing to this weekend’s release of Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another starring Leonardo DiCaprio. Diana Lodderhose, Deadline, 28 Sep. 2025 At a moment when many people’s thoughts and feelings about antisemitism are intense without necessarily being intelligible to others, and when accusations of antisemitism are tremendously forceful, Mazower’s book makes an immense contribution. Book Marks september 25, Literary Hub, 25 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for tremendously

Word History

First Known Use

1669, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of tremendously was in 1669

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“Tremendously.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tremendously. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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