immense
Etymology

From , from , from in- ("not") + mensus ("measured").

Pronunciation
  • IPA: /ɪˈmɛns/
Adjective

immense (comparative immenser, superlative immensest)

  1. Huge, gigantic, very large.
    • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC ↗:
      Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […] , down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.
  2. (colloquial) Supremely good.
  3. (colloquial) Major; to a great degree.
    • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC ↗:
      The gallant young Indian dandies at home on furlough—immense dandies these—chained and moustached—driving in tearing cabs […]
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immense (plural immenses)

  1. (poetic) Immense extent or expanse; immensity.
    • 1882, James Thomson (B. V.), Despotism Tempered by Dynamite:
      The half of Asia is my prison-house,
      Myriads of convicts lost in its Immense
      I look with terror to my crowning day.



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