hugely

«hugely» in Mova's school dictionary: Very much; to a very great degree — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adverb (hugely)

meaning for a pupil

1) Very much; to a very great degree. tree →

2) In a very big way, as in «hugely popular». tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday talk and news it makes words stronger: hugely popular, hugely important, hugely successful. In stories it shows strong feeling: «She was hugely relieved.» It does not give an exact number.

examples

• The new game is hugely popular. tree →
• I was hugely grateful for your help. tree →
• Exercise is hugely important for your health. tree →
• The show was hugely successful. tree →
• Prices rose hugely last winter. tree →
• He enjoyed the trip hugely. tree →
• He got good feeding this night, meat and drink without stint, and the king was hugely pleased that he had caught such a herd. tree →

note

From huge + -ly; drop nothing, just add -ly. Similar: enormously, very, extremely. In a maths problem it means «a lot» but never tells you how much — look for the number.

In the corpora

• And the calls matter hugely to Baba: seeing his face is the best part of her week.

Trees and pragmatics

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