immensely

adverb

im·​mense·​ly i-ˈmen(t)s-lē 

: to a very great or immense degree or extent : exceedingly, enormously

We enjoyed ourselves immensely.

an immensely talented athlete

an immensely important discovery

an immensely wealthy family

Synonyms

• achingly
• almighty
• archly
• awful
• awfully
• badly
• beastly
• blisteringly
• bone
• colossally
• corking
• cracking
• damn
• damned
• dang
• deadly
• desperately
• eminently
• enormously
• especially
• ever
• exceedingly
• exceeding
• extra
• extremely
• fabulously
• fantastically
• far
• fiercely
• filthy
• frightfully
• full
• greatly
• heavily
• highly
• hugely
• 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 immensely in a Sentence

an immensely successful debut album

Recent Examples on the Web

Advertisement Opinion polls show that giving people a route to parenthood via IVF is immensely popular, so even conservative lawmakers have scurried to enact laws to protect the method. —Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2024

Be aware that Dinosaur Ridge is immensely popular, welcoming about 250,000 visitors per year. —Tiney Ricciardi, The Denver Post, 2 June 2024

Having closers matters immensely and Dallas may have two of the best in the NBA. —Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 May 2024

And Huang has profited immensely off of his company’s achievements, his net worth surging to $90 billion in light of recent stock performance. —Bychloe Berger, Fortune, 24 May 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1651, in the meaning defined above