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Immense

//ɪˈmɛns// adj, noun, slang

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Huge, gigantic, very large.

    "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. 2
    Supremely good. colloquial
  3. 3
    Major; to a great degree. colloquial

    "The gallant young Indian dandies at home on furlough—immense dandies these—chained and moustached—driving in tearing cabs […]"

Adjective
  1. 1
    unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    Immense extent or expanse; immensity. poetic

    "The half of Asia is my prison-house, Myriads of convicts lost in its Immense— I look with terror to my crowning day."

Etymology

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

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