Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: immensely
IPA transcription: [,ɪm'ɛnsli]
Pronunciations of immensely
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r meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: vastly, immensely
    Meaning: to an exceedingly great extent or degree; "He had vastly overestimated his resources"; "was immensely more important to the project as a scientist than as an administrator"
Usage examples
  • Listen, do you know that I am immensely wealthy?
  • There can be no doubt about this country being immensely rich in gold.
  • That wink, distorted as it was, gladdened Toby's heart immensely, and took away nearly all the sting of the scolding with which Uncle Daniel greeted him when he reached home.
  • Another dismal circumstance is, that Veneering, having the captivating Tippins on one side of him and the bride's aunt on the other, finds it immensely difficult to keep the peace.
  • She knew he had to go, she was grateful and immensely expressive of her gratitude--Wemyss thought he had never met any one so expressively grateful--that he should so diligently go, but she didn't like it.
  • When I started from Berlin on the trip, I began to tell American stories. Siemens was very fond of these stories and would laugh immensely at them, and could see the points and the humor, by his imagination; but Helmholtz could not see one of them.
  • In fact, the ruinous effects of the earthquake immensely exceeded those of any similar catastrophe ever before known in the United States, and when the destruction done by the succeeding conflagration in San Francisco is taken into account the California earthquake of 1906 takes rank with the most destructive of those recorded in history.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Universe, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording History of the Middle East, License CC BY-SA 4.0
2. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording First Crusade, License CC BY-SA 4.0