immense
[ ih-mens ]
/ ɪˈmɛns /
adjective
vast; huge; very great: an immense territory.
immeasurable; boundless.
Informal. splendid: You did an immense job getting the project started.
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huge, enormous, monstrous, tremendous, limitless, great, colossal, monumental, mammoth, immeasurable, boundless, infinite, prodigious, gigantic, endless, extensive, vast, massive, Brobdingnagian, elephantine
Nearby words
- immedicable,
- immelmann,
- immelmann turn,
- immemorable,
- immemorial,
- immensely,
- immensity,
- immensurable,
- immerge,
- immerse
Origin of immense
1400–50; late Middle English < Latin immēnsus, equivalent to im- im-2 + mēnsus past participle of mētīrī to measure
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immense
/ (ɪˈmɛns) /
adjective
unusually large; huge; vast
without limits; immeasurable
informal very good; excellent
Word Origin for immense
C15: from Latin immensus, literally: unmeasured, from im- (not) + mensus measured, from mētīrī to measure
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