tremendously


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tre·men·dous

 (trĭ-mĕn′dəs)
adj.
1.
a. Extremely large in amount, extent, or size; enormous: a tremendous sum of money. See Synonyms at enormous.
b. Very great in scope or importance: tremendous influence.
2. Remarkable; outstanding: What a tremendous example you have set.
3. Archaic Capable of making one tremble; terrible.

[From Latin tremendus, gerundive of tremere, to tremble.]

tre·men′dous·ly adv.
tre·men′dous·ness n.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adv.1.tremendously - extremelytremendously - extremely; "he was enormously popular"
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Translations
بصورةٍ هائِلَه أو ضَخْمَه
strašně
enormt
nagyon
gífurlega
izredno

tremendously

[trəˈmendəslɪ] ADV [exciting, important, useful, satisfying] → tremendamente, enormemente; [improve, vary, help] → enormemente, muchísimo
he was tremendously helpfulnos ayudó enormemente or muchísimo
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

tremendously

[trəˈmɛndəsli] adv
[enjoy, appreciate] → énormément
I enjoyed it tremendously
BUT Cela m'a énormément plu.
[difficult, good] → formidablement
They played tremendously well → Ils ont joué formidablement bien.
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

tremendously

advsehr; fat, tall, long etc alsoenorm; relieved, upset, grateful, dangerous alsoungeheuer, äußerst; pretty alsoäußerst; intelligent, difficult alsoenorm, äußerst; it was tremendously goodes war einfach prima or umwerfend gut or sagenhaft (inf); they enjoyed themselves tremendouslysie haben sich prächtig or prima or ausgezeichnet amüsiert (inf)
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

tremendously

[trəˈmɛndəslɪ] advincredibilmente
he enjoyed it tremendously → gli è piaciuto da morire
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

tremendous

(trəˈmendəs) adjective
very large; very great. That required a tremendous effort; The response to our appeal was tremendous.
treˈmendously adverb
very. It's tremendously interesting; He's tremendously strong.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
References in classic literature ?
He chaffs her tremendously about her radicalism, and he is so immensely clever that she can't answer him, though she is rather clever too.
He of the black coat tremendously outclassed his adversary in point of size and strength as well as in ferocity.
And all the animals got tremendously excited; and they gave up looking at Jip and turned to watch the sea in front, to spy out any land or islands where the starving man might be.
As she said this she yawned tremendously, and in a moment had put on the appearance of a fearfully ugly troll.
That I should have been tremendously smitten with my first command is nothing to wonder at, but I suppose I must admit that Mr.
"Oh, I could be a tremendously good fellow then, Mary, and we could be married directly."
The babe bawled tremendously, protesting with great violence.
"Sappho says they did enjoy themselves tremendously at your house last night."
They had a little conchological cabinet, and a little metallurgical cabinet, and a little mineralogical cabinet; and the specimens were all arranged and labelled, and the bits of stone and ore looked as though they might have been broken from the parent substances by those tremendously hard instruments their own names; and, to paraphrase the idle legend of Peter Piper, who had never found his way into their nursery, If the greedy little Gradgrinds grasped at more than this, what was it for good gracious goodness' sake, that the greedy little Gradgrinds grasped it!
If Katharine went, her only chance of speaking was lost; her only chance of saying something tremendously important was lost.
With that, I poked tremendously, and having done so, planted myself side by side with Mr.
Then it came to me that she WAS tremendously old-- so old that death might take her at any moment, before I had time to get what I wanted from her.