immensely, adv.
(ɪˈmɛnslɪ)
[f. immense + -ly2.]
In an immense degree; immeasurably, infinitely; very greatly, vastly, hugely: in colloquial use often a hyperbolical intensitive = exceedingly, to an extent which one does not presume to measure or limit.
| 1654 tr. Martini's Conq. China 108 They immensely augmented their Armies, by the access of the China's Souldiers. 1738 Swift Pol. Conversat. 82 She's immensely rich. a 1742 Bentley (J.), The void space of our system is immensely bigger than all its corporeal mass. 1746–7 Hervey Medit. (1818) 173 O ye Heavens, whose azure arches rise immensely high, and stretch immeasurably wide. 1860 Tyndall Glac. i. iii. 27 The chances of safety are immensely in his favour. 1886 Ruskin Præterita I. 241 Charles wrote that he was enjoying himself immensely. |