immense 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 [syn: huge, vast, Brobdingnagian]

English

Etymology

From immensus, from im- not + mensus measured

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛns

Adjective

1. huge, gigantic, very large

Related terms

• immensely
• immensity
• immeasurable
• measure
• mensura

Translations

• Dutch: immens
• Finnish: suunnaton, suunnattoman suuri, valtava
• French: immense
• German: immens
• Italian: immenso
• Japanese: 広大な, 莫大な
• Latin: immensus
• Polish: niezmierny
• Russian: огромный, гигантский
• Spanish: inmenso

French

Pronunciation

Adjective

immense

1. immense, huge

Italian

Adjective

immense p

1. feminine of immenso

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