immense

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

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈmɛns/

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• Rhymes: -ɛns

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.

• See also Thesaurus:gigantic

• immensely
• immensity

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.

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immense

1. Inflected form of immens

• IPA^(key): /i.mɑ̃s/

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immense (plural immenses)

1. immense, huge

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

immense f pl

1. feminine plural of immenso

immēnse

1. vocative masculine singular of immēnsus