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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
enormously
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
benefit greatly/enormously/considerably etc
▪ I’m sure you’ll benefit greatly from the visit.
differ greatly/enormously
▪ Modern teaching methods differ greatly from those fifty years ago.
enormously
▪ Farm sizes vary enormously within Europe.
helped enormously
▪ Eight hours of deep sleep helped enormously.
immensely/hugely/enormously popular
▪ His plays were immensely popular.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ America's Hispanic population has grown enormously in recent years.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Counties vary enormously in their supply of early education programs.
▪ Even elsewhere, its role has grown enormously since the nineteenth century.
▪ I was hot, as if I were standing under an enormously powerful dark sun.
▪ Nevertheless, I missed Mama enormously, and hated the feeling of being cut off from her.
▪ The practical problems for an artist working in the streets, markets or in the homes various enormously from day to day.
▪ Their secret lies in their enormously elongated toes, which spread their weight over a wide area of lily leaf.
▪ These devices can vary enormously in nature and scope: from the overall presentation of narrative structure down to linguistic play.
▪ They have proved enormously successful in both commercial and aesthetic terms.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Enormously

Enormously \E*nor"mous*ly\, adv. In an enormous degree.

Wiktionary
enormously

adv. 1 extremely, greatly: to an enormous degree. 2 shockingly.

WordNet
enormously

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

Usage examples of "enormously".

If the antecedent probability that a result is due to anything else than chance is very, very low, then even enormously improbable results will not overturn it.

The statue of an enormously plump saint in a chalky, yellowy-white robe smiled beneficently from a niche between two tallow candles, and Rudy felt uneasy, filled with a sense of looking at clues he did not understand.

In one of them he told me why Count Asquin was kept under the Leads, in spite of his helplessness, for he was enormously fat, and as he had a broken leg which had been badly set he could hardly put one foot before another.

And there was Dunster, enormously concerned about the slave trade and the Race Relations Act and the Chinese Cultural Revolution, thriving on a series of head-on collisions with the masters and the boys which would have left me trembling with nervous exhaustion.

Belgian biochemist Christian de Duve, and they vary enormously in size and shape, from nerve cells whose filaments can stretch to several feet to tiny, disc-shaped red blood cells to the rod-shaped photocells that help to give us vision.

With them is Kinto, chief Memory-Keeper, his corporeal body blurred by the enormously energic and complex structuring of his engram lattices.

It is true that the man, dressed in the African fashion, was very dark and enormously stout, yet he had a human and very masculine form, and the beautiful marquise had no business to make a mistake.

However--and Cyrus Harding observed it in silent astonishment--not only, as has been said, had the hull of the brig enormously suffered from the shock, whatever it was, that had occasioned the catastrophe, but the interior arrangements had been destroyed, especially towards the bows.

But while the methods of provoking war employed by the patriotic classes are traditional, modern science has made a new and enormously more powerful thing of warfare and, as the Great War showed, even the most conservative generals on both sides are unable to prevent the gigantic interventions of the mechanician and the chemist.

Immediately his respect for Mok, at least as a toper, increased enormously.

The military used SniperEyes, with enormously extended focal ranges and multiple grades of monatomic lasers to assess wind speed, air density and so forth.

Thus the Count was made welcome, and the very next day a lugubrious priest with an enormously long nose was instructed to lead the Count northwards to the Villa Lupighi which stood mouldering on a steep bare hill above the coast.

He was enormously relieved when after dessert, the head of the maintenance division invited Nerine to dance, and he immediately left the table to mingle.

General Nestler picked up the ball there, looking enormously relieved.

However, Davis was still convinced that his neuropathic treatments, which involved no drugs, had enormously benefited his patients.