immense
Etymology
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Etymology
From
- IPA: /ɪˈmɛns/
immense (comparative immenser, superlative immensest)
- 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.
- (colloquial) Supremely good.
- (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 […]
- See also Thesaurus:large
- French: immense
- German: immens
- Italian: immenso
- Portuguese: imenso, enorme
- Russian: огро́мный
- Spanish: inmenso
- Italian: immenso
- Portuguese: maravilhoso, ótimo
- Russian: потряса́ющий
immense (plural immenses)
- (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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