adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a tremendous manner or degree; dreadfully; hence colloq. as a hyperbolical intensive: Exceedingly, extremely, excessively, very greatly.
1680. Baxter, Cath. Commun. (1634), 36. And Peter oft, and once tremendously … rebuk’t by Christ.
1731. Bailey, Tremendously, dreadingly.
1776. Pennant, Zool. (ed. 4), I. 177. White Owl: This species … will often scream most tremendously.
1817. Southey, Ess. (1832), II. 43. The game was of the same kind, though the stake differed tremendously in magnitude.
1863. W. C. Baldwin, Afr. Hunting, ix. 394. If he should have gone, I shall have some tremendously hard work for nothing.
1904. Yorks. Post, 9 Sept., 4/3. How tremendously costly a thing naval ‘supremacy’ has become.
