tremendously

adverb

tre·​men·​dous·​ly tri-ˈmen-dəs-lē 

: 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

Synonyms

• astronomically
• big-time
• broadly
• colossally
• considerably
• enormously
• extensively
• greatly
• highly
• hugely
• largely
• massively
• monstrously
• monumentally
• much
• sizably
• staggeringly
• stupendously
• utterly
• vastly

Examples of tremendously in a Sentence

I'm tremendously upset I didn't get into that university

Recent Examples on the Web

Based in London, the eponymous brand was founded in 2019 and has grown tremendously as of late. —Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 23 May 2024

Dairy farms vary tremendously in size, from under 100 cows to more than 15,000. —Céline Gounder, STAT, 17 May 2024

This school year has been tremendously difficult — both for Jews on campus and the administrators tasked with protecting their college experience. —Ted Deutch, Baltimore Sun, 30 Apr. 2024

This commitment to the customer paid off tremendously, leading Bradley to shatter sales records by earning $2 million in 23 minutes during a Black Friday sale last year. —Jasmine Browley, Essence, 27 Apr. 2024

Gold said scientific research has expanded tremendously over the last decade and has revealed that the scale of the problem is far larger than had been predicted. —Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2024

This helps you tremendously to get into the music and find real emotion. —Jon Burlingame, Variety, 10 Apr. 2024

Whoever wins the election will take the helm of an economy that immigrant workers are supporting tremendously — and likely will keep powering for years to come. —Meryl Kornfield, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2024

The Bee asked the U.S. Executive Office for Immigration Review for data that show how many new cases have been filed in the past few years in immigration courts in San Francisco and Sacramento, which migrant advocates say are tremendously backlogged. —Rosalio Ahumada, Sacramento Bee, 9 Apr. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1669, in the meaning defined above