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 award, titled after a line in Virginia Woolf’s feminist essay A Room of One’s Own (1929), which expounds on the financial independence underpinning artistic accomplishment, has grown tremendously since its founding. —Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 20 Nov. 2024

The other two help tremendously around the house, often without being asked. —Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 14 Nov. 2024

Far from paying a political penalty for election denialism and his role in the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, Trump has benefited tremendously from this behavior. —Robert A. Pape, Foreign Affairs, 5 Nov. 2024

Dorman said Beau gave up a tremendously successful real estate business to serve in a Third World country. —Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 2 Nov. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1669, in the meaning defined above