immense Meaning, Definition & Usage
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adjective satellite unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope
huge; Brobdingnagian; vast.
- 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
WordNet
Im*mense" adjective
Etymology
L.Definitions
Immeasurable; unlimited. In commonest use: Very great; vast; huge. "Immense the power" Pope. "Immense and boundless ocean." Daniel.O Goodness infinite! Goodness immense! Milton.
Syn. -- Infinite; immeasurable; illimitable; unbounded; unlimited; interminable; vast; prodigious; enormous; monstrous. See Enormous .