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

The approach has proved tremendously effective, as evidenced by the power of modern LLMs. —Anil Ananthaswamy, Quanta Magazine, 14 Apr. 2025

Inflation sunk lower than expected, which is tremendously good news. —Paul Bedard, The Washington Examiner, 12 Apr. 2025

Larson has grown tremendously on and off the track since joining Hendrick Motorsports in 2021. —Joseph Wolkin, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025

The court’s April 7 decision allowing the bare minimum process protecting people being removed makes errors more likely and thus raises the stakes for the outcome of the Abrego Garcia case tremendously. —Paul M. Collins Jr., The Conversation, 9 Apr. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1669, in the meaning defined above