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enormously

adverbattested in dialogue

Extremely, greatly: to an enormous degree.

adverb

  1. 1

    Extremely, greatly: to an enormous degree.

    Gloria is enormously pleased with our progress.

    He was enormously popular.

    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.

    Fraser 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.

  2. 2

    Shockingly.

Etymology

Etymology tree English enormous Middle English -ly English -ly English enormously From enormous + -ly.

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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