adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
extremely/immensely relieved
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We're all immensely relieved that the ordeal is over.
immensely powerful
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a machine that is immensely powerful
immensely rich (= extremely rich )
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He was immensely rich and owned two yachts.
immensely/hugely/enormously popular
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His plays were immensely popular.
immensely/intensely/inordinately proud (= extremely proud )
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He said he was immensely proud to have been elected Prime Minister.
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She was intensely proud of being Japanese.
very/extremely/immensely/fabulously etc wealthy
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He left as a poor, working class boy and returned as a wealthy man.
very/extremely/immensely/highly etc complicated
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Mental illness is a very complicated subject.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
complex
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We have to examine and discuss in great detail its proposals for an immensely complex engineering project.
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Real-world economies are so immensely complex and dynamic that the search for such a balance is continual and in some cases impossible.
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This is the context in which the immensely complex events of the minority were played out.
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And he lacked the equipment with which to untangle an immensely complex jealousy.
difficult
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Other disciplines proved to be immensely difficult .
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It is immensely difficult to identify these smaller lights.
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Danger in the street To identify the accident problems specific to residential areas is an immensely difficult task.
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It is immensely difficult for outsiders to begin to assess the efficiency of the secret world.
important
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Trusted paper became both a collateral for short-term credit and an immensely important medium of exchange.
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The pay review body with its commitment to performance-related pay is immensely important .
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It seemed an immensely important question, and not only when applied to Frankenstein.
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The charter is immensely important and will be greatly welcomed by our constituents.
popular
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This had not prevented him from becoming an immensely popular pastor.
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The President personally remained immensely popular and in 1944 he fought and won his fourth presidential campaign.
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The immensely popular company was the only one on the bill, Alvin noted, that was not subsidized by its country.
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Beveridge's legacy endures because the welfare state works tolerably well and is immensely popular .
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Corporate intranets, immensely popular in the business world, may prove too confusing to use and too expensive to maintain.
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The film was immensely popular and had so clearly struck a chord that Hammer carried out a rethink of its production policy.
powerful
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The financial markets are themselves an immensely powerful influence which we can never afford to ignore.
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Sometimes I would feel immensely powerful , feel that I, single-handedly, might change the course of Woolf scholarship.
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But there still remained immensely powerful ministers who led the fight for increased public investment and spending measures to cut unemployment.
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The Savoyards also made Turin an immensely powerful fortress.
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He was about 5 foot 10 inches tall but immensely powerful .
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Jack was never flurried, his cool, unruffled play was a hallmark of his game, along with some immensely powerful clearances.
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But the controls are complex because the machine is immensely powerful .
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Taken together, the new biotechnologies and the pending scientific insights will be immensely powerful .
proud
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The players and coaches should be immensely proud of themselves for their performances.
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Silverstein was immensely proud of the class.
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I was immensely proud of her.
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The headmaster, Wilfred Mulryne, is immensely proud of the school's academic record.
rich
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His voice was immensely rich and strong and suited his heavy features and bearing.
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The present study is immensely rich in every way, and is an impressive foray into largely uncharted territory.
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Gardens in the care of the National Trust are immensely rich in garden statuary of all kinds.
strong
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He is immensely strong , but also shyly gentle and has great sense of humour.
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Gorfang is an immensely strong Orc.
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Jeanne was quiet, appeared timid but had an immensely strong will.
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In fact, it was immensely strong , yet light enough to be controlled single-handed.
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Ulster Television continues to thrive on an excellent programme performance and an immensely strong local identity.
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They were out selling fruit or whatever and they were immensely strong women.
wealthy
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After all, he was an eminently eligible man, attractive and immensely wealthy .
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The order grew immensely wealthy and place names all over the country still remind us of lands that they once owned.
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After all, he was an immensely wealthy man.
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Like Hope, he was immensely wealthy , and was able to combine passive politics with active art patronage and writing.
■ VERB
complicate
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Some of these complexes form immensely complicated sequences of nucleic acids which begin to replicate themselves.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Counseling has helped their relationship immensely .
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They are immensely wealthy.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Gardiner was a strange man: an old Harrovian, an immensely skilful and prosperous Silk and a dedicated socialist.
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He himself had enjoyed the practice immensely .
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The cutthroat, Darwinian capitalism of tournament golf was immensely appealing to Peter.
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The sensation is a thrilling one, and I enjoy it immensely .
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To Soo-Il, the mere thought of bringing the Beautiful One into the Kang home was immensely pleasing.
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We looked forward immensely to these visits.
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When added to your culinary arsenal, they will enhance your game preparations immensely .