enormously

«enormously» in Mova's school dictionary: very much or to a very great amount — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

adverb (enormously)

meaning for a pupil

1) Enormously means very much or to a very great amount. tree →

2) Enormously big means hugely, extremely big. tree →

sense in the lessons

Used to make adjectives and verbs stronger in speech and writing: enormously helpful, enjoyed it enormously, enormously popular. Phrases: enormously important, enormously grateful.

examples

• I enjoyed the trip enormously. tree →
• The new library is enormously popular. tree →
• Thank you, you've been enormously helpful. tree →
• The whale was enormously long. tree →
• Prices have risen enormously. tree →
• Practice helped her enormously. tree →
• Once upon a time, in a very far-off country, there lived a merchant who had been so fortunate in all his undertakings that he was enormously rich. tree →

note

Adverb of enormous. Overusing intensifiers weakens writing; choose one strong word. Not a maths term: «enormously more» tells you a big amount but not how much — check the numbers.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «enormously» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.