Definitions for immense
ɪˈmɛnsim·mense

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. huge, immense, vast, Brobdingnagianadjective

   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

WiktionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. immenseadjective

   huge, gigantic, very large

2. Etymology: From immensus, from im- not + mensus measured

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. IMMENSEadjective

   Unlimited; unbounded; infinite.

   Etymology: immense, Fr. immensus, Lat.

   O goodness infinite! goodness immense!
   That all this good of evil shall produce! John Milton, Parad. Lost.

   As infinite duration hath no relation unto motion and time, so infinite or immense essence hath no relation unto body; but is a thing distinct from all corporeal magnitude, which we mean when we speak of immensity, and of God as of an immense being. Nehemiah Grew, Cosmol.

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1. immense

   Immense is an adjective describing something as extremely large, huge, or vast. It can also refer to something that is extraordinarily great or intense.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Immenseadjective

   immeasurable; unlimited. In commonest use: Very great; vast; huge

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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. immensus—in, not, mensus, pa.p,. of metīri, to measure.]

British National Corpus

1. Adjectives Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'immense' in Adjectives Frequency: #798

How to pronounce immense?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of immense in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of immense in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of immense in a Sentence

1. Turner Sports:

   We are all heartbroken over Sekou's tragic passing, sekou Smith commitment to journalism and the basketball community was immense and we will miss Sekou Smith warm, engaging personality.

2. Katherine Heigl:

   Joining ‘Suits’ was the perfect organic way to not only collaborate with an EP I admire deeply, but to also become part of a show and cast that I am an immense fan of, i have watched ‘Suits’ from the very beginning and feel incredibly lucky to be the newest member of the Pearson Specter Litt family.

3. Amanda Grier:

   A friend is someone, who upon seeing another friend in immense pain, would rather be the one experiencing the pain than to have to watch their friend suffer.

4. Steve Shadowen:

   Everything started building from, 'let's do something about El Paso' into this is huge 'the negligence of the gun industry is immense,' so let's do something that tried to solve the bigger picture. we are particularly interested in getting the manufacturers going forward to change the way they do business, to tighten up their distribution systems so that they don't continue to supply unlimited amounts of guns to gun dealers who are systematically selling them to straw purchasers and others who are engaged in trafficking into Mexico.

5. Claude Lévi-Strauss:

   Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing to recognize... the immense riches accumulated by the human race. By underrating the achievements of the past, they devalue all those which still remain to be accomplished.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=immense
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Immense
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=immense
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/immense
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=immense