Immense

Word IMMENSE
Character 7
Hyphenation im mense
Pronunciations /ɪˈmɛns/

Definitions and meanings of "Immense"

What do we mean by immense?

Very great in size, extent, or amount. adjective

Of great scope or consequence: synonym: enormous. adjective

So great as to be beyond measurement; immeasurable; limitless; boundless; incomprehensible.

Of vast extent, bulk, or quantity; very great; huge; inordinate: as, an immense territory; an immense sum; an immense eater (a colloquial expression).

Very good or fine; very striking, attractive, or interesting.

Synonyms and Excessive, etc. See enormous.

Infinite space; immensity. noun

Immeasurable; unlimited. In commonest use: Very great; vast; huge. adjective

Huge, gigantic, very large adjective

Supremely good adjective

Unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope adjective

Immense extent or expanse; immensity

Synonyms and Antonyms for Immense

The word "immense" in example sentences

And Harpootlian expressed what he called his immense disappointment with the way the Clintons have run the campaign. ❋ Unknown (2008)

His old arse left us in immense debt while he rode away in the sunset - teetering on senility and his handlers kept that fact from the voting electorate. ❋ Unknown (2010)

As Prohibition began, new bootlegging operations opened up and drew in immense wealth. ❋ Unknown (2010)

There is, in short, immense incentive to exaggerate the significance of every piece of "news." ❋ Unknown (2009)

This odd bathos between the particular and the immense is clear to us in tawdry pop songs and moments of solitary sublimity ❋ Newmania (2007)

They are able to sustain immense variations of pressure. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The kids go and get help from the parents who stand their oblivious to the kid in immense amount of pain. ❋ Unknown (2006)

But I also give McCain immense credit for his by all accounts genuine refusal to demonize critics of the war (or any other of his political opponents). ❋ Unknown (2006)

I have two sons, one of three years and means and one of seven months, knowledge that only a small cold them can hit makes badly me star, this renders me the pain immense that can have tried the parents of that child who did not have no guilt. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Africans drink it in immense quantities: in Unyamwezi the standing bedsteads, covered with bark-slabs, are all made sloping so as to drain off the liquor. ❋ Unknown (2006)

But of course, the one-time tax break for bringing corporate earnings back from overseas (5% as opposed to the usual 30+%) brought in immense amounts, as did the tax break for heavy equipment purchases which was also one-time. ❋ Unknown (2005)

For the moment, he can't play, and the racket is immense from the unhappy. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The man, in immense fear of the (blatantly proven) vicious nature of his in-law's family, did his best to conceal the facts, and when they viciously attacked anyway, fled their wrath. ❋ Unknown (2002)

This is by no means wholly due to the new social services, but to other things as well in immense variety -- research and development of all kinds, assistance for commerce, agriculture, fisheries -- and much more. ❋ Unknown (1958)

To give a definite answer one would have to study Gandhi’s acts and writings in immense detail, for his whole life was a sort of pilgrimage in which every act was significant. ❋ Unknown (1949)

They have shown that they have been able to solve the great problem which has been the despair of political philosophers from Aristotle to De Tocqueville, viz., how to join immense size with freedom and efficiency. ❋ Unknown (1919)

My correspondence was immense from the number of posts, and having to carry on a war over a vast extent of thinly populated country, and in peace to defend a frontier of 140 miles. ❋ Unknown (1903)

Refugees from isolated villages swarmed to Kumbum for safety, and soon, as a result of the overcrowding, diphtheria and smallpox were raging, while food, fodder, and everything had risen to such exhorbitant prices that beggars were added in immense crowds to the already existing number, occupying every cave and stable, in fact, every available corner they could find. ❋ Unknown (1901)

The upper class of the Chinese merchants live in immense houses within walled gardens. ❋ Isabella Lucy (1883)

In the midst of a fine glen of renovated cornfields, he was met by a courier from Sir Roger Kirkpatrick, with information that the Northumbrians, being apprised of King Edward's approach, were assembling in immense bodies; and having crossed the Debateable Land in the night, had driven Sir Eustace Maxwell, with great loss, into Carlaveroch; and though harassed by Kirkpatrick himself, were ravaging the country as far as Dumfries. ❋ Unknown (1875)

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