adverb
definition
Greatly; hugely; extremely; vastly; to a great extent.
example
I enjoyed the party immensely.
Examples of immensely in a Sentence
Immensely. I missed you.
No. I'm enjoying this immensely, though.
The book brought him little profit at first, but became immensely popular.
At the same time the old knowledge of nearer Asia was immensely deepened.
The prestige thus won by the British in the south in 1779 was immensely increased in the following year, when they victoriously swept up through South and North Carolina.
I've enjoyed it immensely.
At the same time, with the rise of ideas as to a future life and spiritual beings, this field of mythology is immensely widened, though it cannot be said that a rich mythology is necessarily genetically associated with or combined with belief in many spiritual beings.
They were immensely popular and the fashion for them lasted into the 18th century.
Though holding good within certain limits only, the law has been found immensely useful.
The fact of the matter is, farting is immensely enjoyable.
I feel immensely fortunate to have married into such a great family.
The number of subjects in which examinations are held has since grown immensely.
This kind of sparse upbeat racket still has the power to move me, for which I am immensely grateful.
It has until lately been the practice to remove these to the museum at Naples; but the present tendency is to leave them (and even the movable objects found in the houses) in situ with all due precautions as to their preservation (as in the house of the Vettii, of the Silver Wedding, of the Golden Cupids, &c.), which adds immensely to the interest of the houses; indeed, with the l,eip of judicious restoration, their original condition is in large measure reproduced.'
I have always found Emma Ginn to be immensely knowledgeable and helpful.
He was immensely interested, in a reserved, low-key way, in the exotic cultural efflorescence around him.
These suits are practical, comfortable and immensely stylish.
The figures given show how immensely the river varies in volume, and the greatness of the changes which are constantly going on in the channel and on its banks.
The mode of collection was at the same time immensely improved.
The significance of a common name and a common blood is immensely enhanced by its association with mystic rights and duties, and the pulse of brotherhood beats faster.
His refusal of the cross of the Legion of Honour, offered to him by Napoleon III., made him immensely popular, and in 1871 he was elected, under the Commune, to the chamber.
Evidence of this class, proving the derivation of modern civilization, not only from ancient barbarism, but beyond this, from primeval savagery, is immensely plentiful, especially in rites and ceremonies, where the survival of ancient habits is peculiarly favoured.
Their immensely greater antiquity was proved by their geological position and their association with a long extinct fauna, and they were not, like the Neoliths, recognizable as corresponding closely to the implements used by modern tribes.
Pursuant to orders, on the 26th of May, McClellan sent a small force across the Ohio river to Philippi, dispersed the Confederates there early in June, and immensely aided the Union cause in that region by rapid and brilliant military successes, gained in the short space of eight days.
The country could not afford to lose the goodwill of the emperor of the French, at that time one of the most powerful factors in Europe - in July 1869 Bratianu, although immensely popular, found it necessary to resign office, and with him fell the rest of the cabinet.
The verse translation of a Kempis, indeed, which was in its day immensely popular (it passed through many editions), condemns itself.
The inherent difficulties of this task were immensely enhanced by the fact that Euler was virtually blind, and had to carry all the elaborate computations it involved in his memory.
As some compensation for the low pay of the workmen, parliament tried to bring down the price of commodities to their former level, for (like labor) all manufactured articles had gone up immensely in value.
Callosities, or bare patches covered with hardened and thickened epidermis, are found on the buttocks of many apes, the breast of camels, the inner side of the limbs of Equidae, the grasping under-surface of the tail of prehensile-tailed monkeys, opossums; &c. The greater part of the skin of the onehorned Asiatic rhinoceros is immensely thickened and stiffened by an increase of the tissue of both the skin and epidermis, constituting the well-known jointed " armour-plated " hide of those animals.
If it should come to be held that with so kind a God no redemption at all is necessary, the significance of Christ is immensely curtailed if not blotted out.
In the third place Russia's signal and unexpected successes in the Steppe had immensely increased her prestige on the continent.
The introduction of the danz, ballads (or fornkvicedi, as they are now called) for singing, with a burden, usually relating to a love-tale, which were immensely popular with the people and performed by whole companies at weddings, yule feasts and the like, had relegated the regular Icelandic poetry to more serious events or to the more cultivated of the chiefs.
But the missionaries were summoned to the palace; their presents were immensely admired, and the emperor had the curiosity to send for portraits of the fathers themselves.
One, Pippin of Landen, derived his power from his position as mayor of the palace, from great estates in Aquitaine and between the Meuse and the Rhine, and from the immense number of his supporters; the other, Arnulf, bishop of Metz, sprang from a great family, probably of Roman descent, and was besides immensely wealthy in worldly possessions.
Its importance as a port of call for steamers and a coaling station has grown immensely since the opening of the Suez Canal.
Life on her farm must be immensely boring for him.
Natalie is immensely grateful to Frances for sticking up for her and offers her money to become a regular bodyguard.
They have tried hard and been immensely brave at critical points.
This immensely enjoyable feature documentary follows the male-voice choir of Berlevag, above the Arctic Circle, as they prepare for a Russian tour.
The REACH law, seven years in the making, is immensely complicated and exceptionally controversial.
Beneath the bluster and machismo, he was - both his grandson and Bogdanovich insist - an immensely cultured, well-read man.
Raven was doubtless an intellectual and was immensely learned, but he was a scientific dunce despite his nature study and biology lessons.
The Rothschild banking dynasty was immensely powerful in 19th century Europe.
Already we see signs of an immensely encouraging response.
It's a bleak and satisfying film with an immensely engaging tarnished hero in Auteuil.
Those experiments can be immensely fruitful for new makers.
It is immensely gratifying to see such positive work emerging from North America, the spiritual home of the drug war.
They look immensely strong and yet are well-balanced with unhurried, steady and smooth movement which is driven by powerful hindquarters.
Moreover, 73 several other respondents stressed that Gowan was a highly gifted scientist, scrupulous in his attention to detail and immensely industrious.
It has been immensely influential and reprinted many times.