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

• IPA: /ɪˈmɛns/

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 […]

• See also Thesaurus:large

• immensely
• immensity

• French: immense
• German: immens
• Italian: immenso
• Portuguese: imenso, enorme
• Russian: огро́мный
• Spanish: inmenso

• Italian: immenso
• Portuguese: maravilhoso, ótimo
• Russian: потряса́ющий

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.