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

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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. Rose McIntyre:

   This entire incident caused immense trauma, in fact, I suffered nightmares about it for a long time.

2. John Cochrane:

   Wise public policy has to balance a bit of disease spread against immense economic [ and ] social costs, i think that underlying insight drives much of Scott Atlas particular recommendations.

3. Patrick McHenry:

   What I’ve seen over the last 36 hours is immense amount of effort to take the emotion out of this and get into the substance of the challenges.

4. Anthony Fauci:

   Not since the influenza pandemic of 1918 has humanity faced a public health crisis of this magnitude. Each of you deserves enormous respect for your extraordinary adaptability, resilience and dedication to learning, completing your studies and graduating despite immense difficulties and uncertainties.

5. David Emerling:

   Everyone saw American Honda as an advantage, not a threat, because Shige Yoshida knew that job creation in a very rural state in Ohio would have an immense impact on the economy.

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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
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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