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immense
- /ɪˈmɛns/
Rhymes with -ɛns
Where it comes from
From Middle English immens, inmens, from Old French immense, from Latin immensus, from in- (“not”) + mensus (“measured”). Compare incommensurable.
adjective immenser · immensest
- Huge, gigantic, very large. 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.
- Supremely good.
- Major; to a great degree. The gallant young Indian dandies at home on furlough—immense dandies these—chained and moustached—driving in tearing cabs […]
noun immenses
- Immense extent or expanse; immensity. The half of Asia is my prison-house, Myriads of convicts lost in its Immense— I look with terror to my crowning day.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: big, huge, vast, large, gigantic, colossal, prodigious, massive, brobdingnagian, whopping, giant, great, grand, large-scale, hefty, heavy
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adj huge, gigantic, very large
| Español | inmenso |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 거대한 geodaehan |
| 日本語 | 広大 kōdai, 莫大 bakudai |
| 中文 | 廣大 /广大 guǎngdà, 巨大 jùdà |
| Português | imenso, enorme |
| Français | immense |
| Deutsch | immens |
| Italiano | immenso |
| Română | imens, uriaș |
| Русский | огро́мный ogrómnyj, гига́нтский gigántskij, непоме́рный nepomérnyj, неизмери́мый neizmerímyj |
| العربية | عِمْلاق ʕimlāq |
adj supremely good
| Português | maravilhoso, ótimo |
|---|---|
| Italiano | immenso |
| Русский | потряса́ющий potrjasájuščij, сногсшиба́тельный snogsšibátelʹnyj |
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