enormously

Everyday

1. Enormously means very much or to a very great amount. tree →
2. Enormously big means hugely, extremely big. tree →

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.