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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Very great in size, extent, or amount.
- adjective Of great scope or consequence: synonym: enormous.
from The Century Dictionary.
- So great as to be beyond measurement; immeasurable; limitless; boundless; incomprehensible.
- Of vast extent, bulk, or quantity; very great; huge; inordinate: as, an immense territory; an immense sum; an immense eater (a colloquial expression).
- Very good or fine; very striking, attractive, or interesting.
- Synonyms and Excessive, etc. See
enormous . - noun Infinite space; immensity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Immeasurable; unlimited. In commonest use: Very great; vast; huge.
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- adjective
huge ,gigantic , verylarge - adjective supremely good
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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And Harpootlian expressed what he called his immense disappointment with the way the Clintons have run the campaign.
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His old arse left us in immense debt while he rode away in the sunset - teetering on senility and his handlers kept that fact from the voting electorate.
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As Prohibition began, new bootlegging operations opened up and drew in immense wealth.
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There is, in short, immense incentive to exaggerate the significance of every piece of "news."
David Roberts: The 'Leaked Draft' Non-Story And Copenhagen Journo-Hype 2009
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This odd bathos between the particular and the immense is clear to us in tawdry pop songs and moments of solitary sublimity
The Pontiff Is In... Newmania 2007
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They are able to sustain immense variations of pressure.
Archive 2006-11-01 2006
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The kids go and get help from the parents who stand their oblivious to the kid in immense amount of pain.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Watch this kid nail the dunk! 2006
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But I also give McCain immense credit for his by all accounts genuine refusal to demonize critics of the war (or any other of his political opponents).
Balkinization 2006
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I have two sons, one of three years and means and one of seven months, knowledge that only a small cold them can hit makes badly me star, this renders me the pain immense that can have tried the parents of that child who did not have no guilt.
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Africans drink it in immense quantities: in Unyamwezi the standing bedsteads, covered with bark-slabs, are all made sloping so as to drain off the liquor.
Related Words
synonyms (112)
Words with the same meaning
- Atlantean
- Brobdingnagian
- Cyclopean
- Gargantuan
- Herculean
- Homeric
- abysmal
- all-comprehensive
- all-inclusive
- amplitudinous
- astronomic
- astronomical
- awesome
- boundless
- bulky
- colossal
- cosmic
- countless
- divine
- elephantine
- endless
- enormous
- epic
- eternal
- exhaustless
- exquisite
- extending everywhere
- extensive
- galactic
- giant
- giantlike
- gigantic
- gilt-edged
- glorious
- golden
- great
- heavenly
- heroic
- huge
- humongous
- illimitable
- illimited
- immeasurable
- incalculable
- incomprehensible
- inexhaustible
- infinite
- infinitely continuous
- innumerable
- interminable
- interminate
- jumbo
- king-size
- large
- limitless
- magnificent
- mammoth
- marvelous
- massive
- massy
- measureless
- mighty
- monster
- monstrous
- monumental
- mountainous
- no end of
- outsize
- overgrown
- perpetual
- prodigious
- profound
- sensational
- shoreless
- sizable
- spacious
- splendid
- splendiferous
- staggering
- sterling
- stupendous
- sumless
- super
- superb
- supereminent
- superexcellent
- superfine
- termless
- terrific
- titanic
- towering
- tremendous
- unbounded
- uncircumscribed
- unfathomable
- universal
- unlimited
- unmeasurable
- unmeasured
- unnumbered
- unplumbed
- untold
- vast
- vasty
- voluminous
- weighty
- without bound
- without end
- without limit
- without measure
- without number
- wonderful
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