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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
immensely
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
extremely/immensely relieved
▪ We're all immensely relieved that the ordeal is over.
immensely powerful
▪ a machine that is immensely powerful
immensely rich (=extremely rich)
▪ He was immensely rich and owned two yachts.
immensely/hugely/enormously popular
▪ His plays were immensely popular.
immensely/intensely/inordinately proud (=extremely proud)
▪ He said he was immensely proud to have been elected Prime Minister.
▪ She was intensely proud of being Japanese.
very/extremely/immensely/fabulously etc wealthy
▪ He left as a poor, working class boy and returned as a wealthy man.
very/extremely/immensely/highly etc complicated
▪ Mental illness is a very complicated subject.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
complex
▪ We have to examine and discuss in great detail its proposals for an immensely complex engineering project.
▪ Real-world economies are so immensely complex and dynamic that the search for such a balance is continual and in some cases impossible.
▪ This is the context in which the immensely complex events of the minority were played out.
▪ And he lacked the equipment with which to untangle an immensely complex jealousy.
difficult
▪ Other disciplines proved to be immensely difficult.
▪ It is immensely difficult to identify these smaller lights.
▪ Danger in the street To identify the accident problems specific to residential areas is an immensely difficult task.
▪ It is immensely difficult for outsiders to begin to assess the efficiency of the secret world.
important
▪ Trusted paper became both a collateral for short-term credit and an immensely important medium of exchange.
▪ The pay review body with its commitment to performance-related pay is immensely important.
▪ It seemed an immensely important question, and not only when applied to Frankenstein.
▪ The charter is immensely important and will be greatly welcomed by our constituents.
popular
▪ This had not prevented him from becoming an immensely popular pastor.
▪ The President personally remained immensely popular and in 1944 he fought and won his fourth presidential campaign.
▪ The immensely popular company was the only one on the bill, Alvin noted, that was not subsidized by its country.
▪ Beveridge's legacy endures because the welfare state works tolerably well and is immensely popular.
▪ Corporate intranets, immensely popular in the business world, may prove too confusing to use and too expensive to maintain.
▪ The film was immensely popular and had so clearly struck a chord that Hammer carried out a rethink of its production policy.
powerful
▪ The financial markets are themselves an immensely powerful influence which we can never afford to ignore.
▪ Sometimes I would feel immensely powerful, feel that I, single-handedly, might change the course of Woolf scholarship.
▪ But there still remained immensely powerful ministers who led the fight for increased public investment and spending measures to cut unemployment.
▪ The Savoyards also made Turin an immensely powerful fortress.
▪ He was about 5 foot 10 inches tall but immensely powerful.
▪ Jack was never flurried, his cool, unruffled play was a hallmark of his game, along with some immensely powerful clearances.
▪ But the controls are complex because the machine is immensely powerful.
▪ Taken together, the new biotechnologies and the pending scientific insights will be immensely powerful.
proud
▪ The players and coaches should be immensely proud of themselves for their performances.
▪ Silverstein was immensely proud of the class.
▪ I was immensely proud of her.
▪ The headmaster, Wilfred Mulryne, is immensely proud of the school's academic record.
rich
▪ His voice was immensely rich and strong and suited his heavy features and bearing.
▪ The present study is immensely rich in every way, and is an impressive foray into largely uncharted territory.
▪ Gardens in the care of the National Trust are immensely rich in garden statuary of all kinds.
strong
▪ He is immensely strong, but also shyly gentle and has great sense of humour.
▪ Gorfang is an immensely strong Orc.
▪ Jeanne was quiet, appeared timid but had an immensely strong will.
▪ In fact, it was immensely strong, yet light enough to be controlled single-handed.
▪ Ulster Television continues to thrive on an excellent programme performance and an immensely strong local identity.
▪ They were out selling fruit or whatever and they were immensely strong women.
wealthy
▪ After all, he was an eminently eligible man, attractive and immensely wealthy.
▪ The order grew immensely wealthy and place names all over the country still remind us of lands that they once owned.
▪ After all, he was an immensely wealthy man.
▪ Like Hope, he was immensely wealthy, and was able to combine passive politics with active art patronage and writing.
■ VERB
complicate
▪ Some of these complexes form immensely complicated sequences of nucleic acids which begin to replicate themselves.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Counseling has helped their relationship immensely.
▪ They are immensely wealthy.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Gardiner was a strange man: an old Harrovian, an immensely skilful and prosperous Silk and a dedicated socialist.
▪ He himself had enjoyed the practice immensely.
▪ The cutthroat, Darwinian capitalism of tournament golf was immensely appealing to Peter.
▪ The sensation is a thrilling one, and I enjoy it immensely.
▪ To Soo-Il, the mere thought of bringing the Beautiful One into the Kang home was immensely pleasing.
▪ We looked forward immensely to these visits.
▪ When added to your culinary arsenal, they will enhance your game preparations immensely.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Immensely

Immensely \Im*mense"ly\, adv. In immense manner or degree.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
immensely

1650s, from immense + -ly (2).

Wiktionary
immensely

adv. hugely; extremely; vastly.

WordNet
immensely

adv. to an exceedingly great extent or degree; "He had vastly overestimated his resources"; "was immensely more important to the project as a scientist than as an administrator" [syn: vastly]

Usage examples of "immensely".

The delicate but immensely strong thread of love that binds an abused child to her abuser is only too clear.

He had no feet, it was immensely more difficult for him to fly than for any other airman in the world, but even that did not stir him.

Those two handsome adepts of Terpsichore had never met before, and they began an amorous warfare which made me enjoy my supper immensely, because, as he was a fellow artist, Marina assumed towards Baletti a tone well adapted to the circumstances, and very different to her usual manner with other men.

Assuredly a Dudley Sowerby would be immensely startled to find in his bride a young woman more than babily aware of the existence of one particular form of naughtiness on earth.

The addition of the boisterous, red-haired Wildantor turned our little reunion into an extended party, and I was enjoying myself immensely.

A temporary absence from the centre of the stage might even be desirable, for he suffered excruciatingly from the gout: The King and Bute were surprised and immensely gratified when he accepted this offer.

Hunched behind the wheel he watched the entrance to Cleaver Hall, a pair of immensely tall wrought-iron gates which were closed.

The second was worse than the first, and I sent her away, and ten others after her, while I could see that my fastidiousness amused the landlord immensely.

The desire of gaining the prize excited the impure crowd immensely, and the castrati, the girls, and the abbes all did their utmost, each one striving to be the first.

Neither of them were playing, and I spent two hours in their company, talking of love all the while and enjoying their conversation immensely, for they were exceedingly intelligent.

Shaggy hair, untrimmed beard descending to the chest, the body almost naked except a rag round the waist, wild eyes, enormous hands with immensely long nails, skin the color of mahogany, feet as hard as if made of horn, such was the miserable creature who yet had a claim to be called a man.

And, with that, aunty gave George a nudge with her finger, designed to be immensely facetious, and turned again to her griddle with great briskness.

I candidly told him that the thrashing had been my handiwork, and I gave him all the particulars, which amused him immensely.

I felt that my love for Donna Ignazia had increased immensely since our last meeting.

Rossi, hoping perhaps that I would make him a present of another play, asked my leave to give my lady a superb pelisse of lynx-fur, which pleased her immensely.