humongously

To colossal degree

Humongously means to an enormous or excessive degree: The project went humongously over budget.

The word is informal and emphatic, derived from humongous, itself a playful coinage blending huge and monstrous.

It appears mostly in casual speech when regular intensifiers feel inadequate.

size

enormously

To vast degree

colossally · monumentally · titanically · gargantuan · stupendously · mountainously · whopping · towering · immensely · prodigiously

exaggeration

exaggeratedly

To an inflated degree

embellished · amplified · overemphasized · extravagantly · flamboyantly · outrageously · ridiculously · absurdly · preposterously · ludicrously

informal

mega

Million-fold prefix

  • superOutstanding or above
  • ultraAdvocate of extreme measures
  • crazyMentally unhinged

insanely · wildly · freakishly · monstrously · awesomely · epically · majorly · seriously · totally · massively

Opposites
degree/magnitude

humongouslyminutely

With painstaking attention

infinitesimally · microscopically · tinily · slightly · minimally

Family

humongous

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G