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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Immense \Im*mense"\, adjective [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.
O Goodness infinite! Goodness immense! --Milton.
Syn: Infinite; immeasurable; illimitable; unbounded; unlimited; interminable; vast; prodigious; enormous; monstrous. See {Enormous}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
immense
adjective: unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope; "huge government spending"; "huge country estates"; "huge popular demand for higher education"; "a huge wave"; "the Los Angeles aqueduct winds like an immense snake along the base of the mountains"; "immense numbers of birds"; "at vast (or immense) expense"; "the vast reaches of outer space"; "the vast accumulation of knowledge...which we call civilization"- W.R.Inge [syn: {huge}, {vast}, {Brobdingnagian}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
110 Moby Thesaurus words for "immense": Atlantean, Brobdingnagian, Cyclopean, Gargantuan, Herculean, Homeric, abysmal, all-comprehensive, all-inclusive, amplitudinous, astronomic, astronomical, awesome, boundless, bulky, colossal, cosmic, countless, divine, elephantine, endless, enormous, epic, eternal, exhaustless, exquisite, extending everywhere, extensive, galactic, giant, giantlike, gigantic, gilt-edged, glorious, golden, heavenly, heroic, huge, humongous, illimitable, illimited, immeasurable, incalculable, incomprehensible, inexhaustible, infinite, infinitely continuous, innumerable, interminable, interminate, jumbo, king-size, large, limitless, magnificent, mammoth, marvelous, massive, massy, measureless, mighty, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, no end of, outsize, overgrown, perpetual, prodigious, profound, sensational, shoreless, sizable, spacious, splendid, splendiferous, staggering, sterling, stupendous, sumless, super, superb, supereminent, superexcellent, superfine, termless, terrific, titanic, towering, tremendous, unbounded, uncircumscribed, unfathomable, universal, unlimited, unmeasurable, unmeasured, unnumbered, unplumbed, untold, vast, voluminous, weighty, without bound, without end, without limit, without measure, without number, wonderful
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