IMMENSE

huge, immense, vast, Brobdingnagian

(adjective) unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope; “huge government spending”; “huge country estates”; “huge popular demand for higher education”; “a huge wave”; “the Los Angeles aqueduct winds like an immense snake along the base of the mountains”; “immense numbers of birds”; “at vast (or immense) expense”; “the vast reaches of outer space”; “the vast accumulation of knowledge...which we call civilization”- W.R.Inge

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

immense (comparative immenser, )

Huge, gigantic, very large.

(colloquial) Supremely good.

Synonyms

• See also gigantic

Noun

immense (plural immenses)

(poetic) immense extent or expanse; immensity

Anagrams

• Eminems

Source: Wiktionary


Im*mense", a. Etym: [L. immensus; pref. im- not + mensus, p. p. of metiri to measure: cf. F. immense. See Measure.]

Definition: Immeasurable; unlimited. In commonest use: Very great; vast; huge. "Immense the power" Pope. "Immense and boundless ocean." Daniel. O Goodness infinite! Goodness immense! Milton.

Syn.

– Infinite; immeasurable; illimitable; unbounded; unlimited; interminable; vast; prodigious; enormous; monstrous. See Enormous.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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