单词 | immensely |
释义 | immensely (once / 843 pages) adv Immensely is an adverb that means vastly, or very, or hugely. An immensely good time is a really, really good time. If you know that immense means huge, then you probably already have a sense of what immensely means. It's a word for describing the enormous degree of something. A New York Times bestseller is an immensely popular book. Any offensive lineman is an immensely large human being. The earth is immensely old. A mouse can't be described as doing anything immensely, but an elephant does things immensely all the time. WORD FAMILYimmense: immensely, immenseness, immenser, immensest, immensity+/immensity: immensities USAGE EXAMPLESThough simple in principle the tax proved to be immensely complex in practice. BBC(Dec 29, 2016) “She’s an immensely powerful woman, and I just admire my mother very much,” Fisher told NPR’s Fresh Air last month. Seattle Times(Dec 29, 2016) “She’s an immensely powerful woman, and I just admire my mother very much,” Carrie Fisher said. Seattle Times(Dec 28, 2016) adv to an exceedingly great extent or degree was immensely more important to the project as a scientist than as an administrator Syn vastly |
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