immense
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EtymologyEdit
From Middle French immense, from Latin immensus, from in- (“not”) + mensus (“measured”). Compare incommensurable.
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immense (comparative immenser, superlative immensest)
- Huge, gigantic, very large.
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 5, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
- Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.
- (colloquial) Supremely good.
SynonymsEdit
- See also Thesaurus:gigantic
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TranslationsEdit
huge, gigantic, very large
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supremely good
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NounEdit
immense (plural immenses)
- (poetic) immense extent or expanse; immensity
- 1882, James Thomson (B. V.), “Despotism Tempered by Dynamite”:
- The half of Asia is my prison-house,
Myriads of convicts lost in its Immense—
I look with terror to my crowning day.
- The half of Asia is my prison-house,
- 1882, James Thomson (B. V.), “Despotism Tempered by Dynamite”:
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immense
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immense (plural immenses)
Further readingEdit
- “immense” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
ItalianEdit
AdjectiveEdit
immense f pl
LatinEdit
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immēnse