 3 definitions found
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 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 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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