Definition of immense Immense

/ɪmɛˈns/ - [imens] - im•mense

We found 6 definitions of immense from 5 different sources.

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WordNet by Princeton University

Adjective

immense - 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
  huge, vast, Brobdingnagian
  large, big having broad power and range and scope; "taking the large view"; "a large effect"; "a large sympathy"
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

  • immense (a.)
    Immeasurable; unlimited. In commonest use: Very great; vast; huge.

Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕

  • immense
    im-mens′, adj. that cannot be measured: vast in extent: very large.—adv. Immense′ly.—ns. Immense′ness; Immens′ity, an extent not to be measured: infinity: greatness. [Fr.,—L. immensusin, not, mensus, pa.p,. of metīri, to measure.]

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  • immense, adjective.

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