Meaning of IMMENSE
| Pronunciation: | | i'mens
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| | Definition: | | [adj] 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 |
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| | Synonyms: | | big, huge, large, vast |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Im*mense"\, a. [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}.
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