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mountainously adverb uk /ˈmaʊn.tən.əs.li/ us /ˈmaʊn.tən.əs.li/ in a way that is very big or high, or like a mountain: The waves were mountainously high. This new construction project is becoming mountainously expensive. My teenage son's dirty clothes were accumulating mountainously on the floor. As he walked round the supermarket, he loaded the trolley mountainously with food. The mountainously indebted club will need a miracle in order to survive. Trucks were laden mountainously with bags and boxes, as people fled the hurricane zone. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Enormous astronomical astronomically behemoth bigly by far and awayidiom immeasurable immeasurably immense immensity inordinate precipitous stratospheric stratospherically super-colossal supersized terrific thumping walloping yawning yawningly
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