enormouslyadv.
/ᵻˈnɔːməsli/, U.S. /ᵻˈnɔrməsli/ In an enormous manner.† 1. (a) Abnormally, eccentrically, irregularly; (b) lawlessly, criminally, immorally. Obsolete.
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the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > heinousness > [adverb]
foullyOE
ranklyOE
awly?c1225
wickc1330
deeplyc1384
cursedlyc1386
outrageouslya1387
wickeda1400
outragelya1425
heinouslyc1440
enormly1538
arrantly?1548
enormouslya1617
flagitiously1622
enormiouslya1641
flagrantly1756
atrociously1765
society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > [adverb] > heinously
foullyOE
deeplyc1384
outrageouslya1387
outragelya1425
heinouslyc1440
rankly?1534
enormly1538
enormouslya1617
flagitiously1622
enormiouslya1641
atrociously1765
the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > unconformity > abnormality > [adverb]
enormous1566
enormouslya1617
abnormally1831
abnormously1851
a1617 S. Hieron Penance for Sinne in Wks. (1620) II. 289 He, that preacheth most enormously, professeth the cleane contrarie.
a1631 J. Donne Βιαθανατος (1647) ii. iii. §2 There Bull-bayting, to which they are so enormously addicted, which yet of it selfe is no sinne.
1686 R. Boyle Free Enq. Notion Nature 260 From which the monster does enormously deviate.
1689 Myst. Iniq. 20 Popery..provides for their living as enormously as they please.
1713 W. Derham Physico-theol. v. iv. 329 Had Man's Body been made..too enormously Gigantick, it would [etc.].
2. To a vast extent; vastly, hugely, prodigiously.
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the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [adverb] > hugely
huge1508
giantly1625
immeasurably1631
immensely1654
gigantically1678
enormously1695
colossally1809
tremendously1832
mega1966
the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > extremely or exceedingly > hugely or immensely
hugelyc1380
huge1508
enormly1538
monstruously?1548
massively1550
monstrously1602
a worlda1616
hugeouslya1643
immensely1654
vastly1664
swingingly1668
hugeous1673
gigantically1678
vast1688
swingeing1690
thumpingly1693
enormously1695
pancratically1727
immense1754
colossally1809
whooping1866
monumentally1877
pyramidically1886
pyramidally1891
galactically1968
1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 58 A Notion so enormously absurd and senseless.
1742 H. Walpole Let. 7 Jan. in Lett. to H. Mann (1833) I. 68 It will be enormously long, but I have prepared you for it.
1797 E. Burke Lett. Peace Regic. France iii, in Wks. (1815) VIII. 381 The rise in the last year..is enormously out of all proportion.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps ii. §20. 338 The alleged temperature was so enormously below the freezing point.
1867 C. Dickens Let. 21 Nov. (1999) XI. 480 The city has increased enormously.
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