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Webster 1913 Edition

Immense

Im-mense′

,
Adj.
[L.
immensus
; pref.
im-
not +
mensus
, p. p. of
metiri
to measure: cf. F.
immense
. See
Measure
.]
Immeasurable; unlimited. In commonest use: Very great; vast; huge.
“Immense the power”
Pope.
“Immense and boundless ocean.”
Daniel.
Syn. – Infinite; immeasurable; illimitable; unbounded; unlimited; interminable; vast; prodigious; enormous; monstrous. See
Enormous
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Immense

IMMENSE

,
Adj.
immens'. [L. immensus; in and mensus,metior, to measure.]
1.
Unlimited; unbounded; infinite.
O goodness infinite! goodness immense!
2.
Vast in extent; very great; as an immense distance.
3.
Huge in bulk; very large; as the immense body of Jupiter.

Definition 2024

immense

immense

English

Adjective

immense ‎(comparative immenser, superlative immensest)

  1. Huge, gigantic, very large.
    • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 5, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
      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.

Synonyms

  • See also Wikisaurus:gigantic

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Translations

Dutch

Pronunciation

Adjective

immense

  1. Inflected form of immens

French

Pronunciation

Adjective

immense m, f ‎(plural immenses)

  1. immense, huge

Italian

Adjective

immense f pl

  1. feminine plural of immenso

Latin

Adjective

immense

  1. vocative masculine singular of immensus

Etymology

From Middle French immense, from Latin immensus, from in- ‎(“not”) + mensus ‎(“measured”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɪˈmɛns/
  • Rhymes: -ɛns

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