immense

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɪˈmɛns/

Adjective

immense (comparative immenser, superlative immensest)

1. Huge, gigantic, very large.
2. (colloquial) Supremely good.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:gigantic

Related terms

• immensely
• immensity

Translations

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

Translations

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

Noun

immense (plural immenses)

1. (poetic) immense extent or expanse; immensity
   • 1882, James Thomson (poet, born 1834), “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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