immense

English

Etymology

From Middle French immense, from Latin immensus, from in- (“not”) + mensus (“measured”). Compare incommensurable.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈmɛns/

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• Rhymes: -ɛns

Adjective

immense (comparative immenser, superlative immensest)

1. 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.

2. (colloquial) Supremely good.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:gigantic

Related terms

• immensely
• immensity

Translations

huge, gigantic, very large

• Arabic: عِمْلاق‎ (ʿimlāq)
• Norwegian: gigantisk
• Bulgarian: грамаден (bg) (gramaden), огромен (bg) (ogromen)
• Catalan: immens (ca)
• Cherokee: ᎤᎪᏗᏗ (ugodidi)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 廣大 (zh), 广大 (zh) (guǎngdà), 巨大 (zh) (jùdà)

• Czech: ohromný (cs)
• Dutch: immens (nl)
• Esperanto: grandega
• Finnish: suunnaton (fi), suunnattoman suuri, valtava (fi)
• French: immense (fr)
• Galician: inmenso m
• German: immens (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: παμμεγέθης (pammegéthēs)

• Hungarian: mérhetetlen (hu), roppant (hu)

• Irish: ábhal
• Italian: immenso (it)
• Japanese: 広大 (ja) (こうだい, kōdai), 莫大 (ja) (ばくだい, bakudai)
• Korean: 거대한 (geodaehan)
• Latin: immensus
• Latvian: milzīgs, gigantisks
• Ligurian: grandìscimu
• Norman: înmense
• Polish: ogromny (pl), przeogromny (pl), niezmierny (pl)
• Portuguese: imenso (pt), enorme (pt)
• Rapa Nui: nui nui
• Romanian: imens (ro), uriaș (ro)
• Russian: огро́мный (ru) (ogrómnyj), гига́нтский (ru) (gigántskij), непоме́рный (ru) m (nepomérnyj), неизмери́мый (ru) (neizmerímyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: an-mhòr
• Spanish: inmenso (es)
• Thai: มหึมา (má-hʉ̀-maa), มหาศาล (th) (máhăa săan)
• Turkish: kocaman (tr)

supremely good

• Bulgarian: великолепен (bg) (velikolepen)
• Italian: immenso (it)

• Portuguese: maravilhoso (pt), ótimo (pt)
• Russian: потряса́ющий (ru) (potrjasájuščij), сногсшиба́тельный (ru) (snogsšibátelʹnyj)

Noun

immense (plural immenses)

1. (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.

Anagrams

• Eminems

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Adjective

immense

1. Inflected form of immens

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.mɑ̃s/

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Adjective

immense (plural immenses)

1. immense, huge

Further reading

• “immense” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Italian

Adjective

immense f pl

1. feminine plural of immenso

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Latin

Adjective

immēnse

1. vocative masculine singular of immēnsus