What does immense mean?

Definitions for immense
ɪˈmɛnsim·mense

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Princeton's WordNet

  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

Wiktionary

  1. immenseadjective

    huge, gigantic, very large

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

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  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 Dictionary

  1. Immenseadjective

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

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  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. immensusin, 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. Alex McNabb:

    So, guess who volunteered to take( his) blood ? dr. Narcan enjoyed great, immense satisfaction as he terrorized this youngster with a needle and stabbed him thusly in the arm with a large-gauge IV catheter.

  2. Tony Blair:

    It is an immense honour to be appointed Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, and I am deeply grateful to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

  3. Isaac D?Israeli:

    Is a preface exquisitely written? No literary morsel is more delicious. Is the author inveterately dull? It is a kind of preparatory information, which may be very useful. It argues a deficiency of taste to turn over an elaborate preface unread: for it is the attar of the author?s roses, every drop distilled at an immense cost. It is the reason of the reasoning, and the folly of the foolish.

  4. Brittney Woodrum:

    Word seemed to spread very quickly and a lot of people were equally impassioned by ShelterBox's mission and what I was doing, i have an immense amount of gratitude to everyone who came out to support me both virtually physically.

  5. David Malpass:

    It’s imperative that there be more supply in the world, especially of energy, there are immense amounts of available natural gas … it just needs to be announced.

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