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Tremendously

Tremendous \Tre*men"dous\, a. [L. tremendus that is to be trembled at, fearful, fr. tremere to tremble. See Tremble.] Fitted to excite fear or terror; such as may astonish or terrify by its magnitude, force, or violence; terrible; dreadful; as, a tremendous wind; a tremendous shower; a tremendous shock or fall.

A tremendous mischief was a foot.
--Motley.

Syn: Terrible; dreadful; frightful; terrific; horrible; awful. [1913 Webster] -- Tre*men"dous*ly, adv. -- Tre*men"dous*ness, n.

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tremendously

adv. greatly; enormously

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tremendously

adv. extremely; "he was enormously popular" [syn: enormously, hugely, staggeringly]

Usage examples of "tremendously".

For each group of plaguers who reached New Orleans, a cure had been grown by the tremendously advanced AI at the heart of the city.

Aunt Hatt took charge of him with a brisk efficiency that was tremendously comforting, and Guffy left him in her care when with Eager-Wright and young Hal they set out to search the house for Amanda and those unlucky watchdogs, Lugg and Scatty Williams.

The shote had long thin legs, a pair of tremendously long ears, and a snout built for inquisitiveness.

Their time rate was speeded up tremendously, so that what was hundreds of miles per hour to us was feet per minute to them.

President being tremendously concerned in ameliorating the condition of the unprivileged is perfectly true.

Clotho picked a white Abyssinian, fussing over it tremendously, hardly willing to put the kitten down.

During this time, he and Rick could swap stories, or Archimedes and Rick would put on what they thought were their hilarious comedy schticks and soft shoe routines, which bored Bill so tremendously that he would fall asleep if he even thought about them.

Rhapsody was tremendously saddened to hear that the terminus of the tremor was the House of Remembrance, which ignited in flames and was burned to ashes, along with a goodly portion of the tainted forest that surrounded it.

In four days of the fiercest type of fighting, against a stubborn and well- emplaced enemy, the main Japanese defense line west of Baguio was broken, and the attack was tremendously accelerated.

It was a tremendously armored braincase whose only purpose was the protection and support of the berserker computer gear that it contained.

I was tremendously thrilled by the sight of an amazingly large broadbill swordfish.

Sibian was very close to the southern dialects of Algarvian, and not tremendously far removed from his own more northerly accent.

It has seemed impossible to a man who is not a Frenchman, and who is, therefore, tremendously excited over the case, to avoid discussion of the Jabberwocky of the Rennes court-martial as it is reported in America and England.

He had modified the Kawasaki to be tremendously responsive to even the most minute changes in pressure on the accelerator and brakes.

First she had produced a tremendously effortful Thai banquet flavored with Nam Poc and lemongrass which she had gone out of her way to procure some where, and then she had created an ambitious coulibiac of salmon so substantial she had to convey it to the table on the dusted-off Thanksgiving turkey platter with branches of parsley obscuring the holiday motif.