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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/enormously/#m1)

2) Enormously big means hugely, extremely big. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/enormously/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/enormously/#x1)
- The new library is enormously popular. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/enormously/#x2)
- Thank you, you've been enormously helpful. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/enormously/#x3)
- The whale was enormously long. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/enormously/#x4)
- Prices have risen enormously. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/enormously/#x5)
- Practice helped her enormously. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/enormously/#x6)
- 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/enormously/#x7)

### 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/enormously/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.