HyperDic: immense

English > 1 sense of the word immense:
ADJECTIVEallimmense, huge, vast, Brobdingnagianunusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope
immense > pronunciation
Soundsihmeh'ns
Rhymescommence ... whence: 23 rhymes with ehns...
English > immense: 1 sense > adjective 1
Meaningunusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope.
Examples
  • "the Los Angeles aqueduct winds like an immense snake along the base of the mountains"
  • "immense numbers of birds"
  • "at vast (or immense) expense"
Synonymshuge, vast, Brobdingnagian
Broaderlarge, bigAbove average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent
Spanishenorme, grandote, inmenso, oceánico, vasto
Catalanenorme, extens, gegant, gran, immens, vast
Nounsimmenseness, immensityunusual largeness in size or extent or number
Adverbsimmenselyto an exceedingly great extent or degree

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