Immense

Definition: Immense

Immense

Adjective

1. Unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope; "huge government spending"; "huge country estates"; "huge popular demand for higher education"; "a huge wave"; "the Los Angeles aqueduct winds like an immense snake along the base of the mountains"; "immense numbers of birds"; "at vast (or immense) expense"; "the vast reaches of outer space"; "the vast accumulation of knowledge...which we call civilization"- W.R.Inge.

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Date "immense" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Etymology: Immense \Im*mense"\, adjective. [Latin expression immensus; prefix im- not mensus, past participle of metiri to measure: compare to the French expression immense. See Measure.]. (references)

Synonyms: Immense

Greatness

Vast, immense, enormous, extreme; inordinate, excessive, extravagant, exorbitant, outrageous, preposterous, unconscionable, swinging, monstrous, overgrown; towering, stupendous, prodigious, astonishing, incredible; marvelous.

Infinity

Adjective: infinite; immense; numberless, countless, sumless, measureless; innumerable, immeasurable, incalculable, illimitable, inexhaustible, interminable, unfathomable, unapproachable; exhaustless, indefinite; without number, without measure, without limit, without end; incomprehensible; limitless, endless, boundless, termless; untold, unnumbered, unmeasured, unbounded, unlimited; illimited; perpetual.

Size

Huge, immense, enormous, mighty; vast, vasty; amplitudinous, stupendous; monster, monstrous, humongous, monumental; elephantine, jumbo, mammoth; gigantic, gigantean, giant, giant like, prodigious, colossal, Cyclopean, Brobdingnagian, Bunyanesque, Herculean, Gargantuan; infinite.

Crosswords: Immense

French (absolute, abysmal, broad, colossal, cosmic, enormous, great, huge, hulking, immense, monstrosities, monstrous, ogre, towering, tremendous, unbounded, vast, wide).

I find a little giggle-gas before I begin gives me immense pleasure (Little Shop of Horrors; writing credit: Charles B. Griffith; Howard Ashman)

The predicament of Man forced to live in a barren, Godless eternity like a tiny flame flickering in an immense void with nothing but waste, horror and degradation, forming a useless bleak straitjacket in a black absurd cosmos (Play It Again, Sam; writing credit: Woody Allen)

It is impossible to overestimate the immense need that humans have to be listened to, understood, and taken seriously. (references; author: unknown)

La Vie est immense et pleine de dangers (1994)

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Books

• Fidel Castro at the UN: 'We Represent the Immense Majority of Humanity' (reference)

• Hans and Heinz Kirch: With Immense and Journey to a Hallig (Angel Classics) (reference)

• Immense Complex Drama: The World and Art of the Howells Novel (reference)

• Immense enjoyment : the illustrated journals & letters of William L. Wells, 1884-1888 : the life of an early Quaker family in Tasmania (reference)

• The Immense Journey (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Tu Inmenso Amor (Your Immense Love) (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Analysis of dramatic Hubble telescope images reveals immense comet-shaped knots of gas in the ... Credit: NASA.

The great naval blockade of Round Island. Showing the immense importance of having an efficient "right arm of the national defence". Credit: Library of Congress.

Provisioning an immense army - British transport wagons in France. Credit: Library of Congress.

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This market has given an immense development to commerce, to navigation, to communication by land. (reference)

If the Western Democracies stand together in strict adherence to the principles of the United Nations Charter, their influence for furthering those principles will be immense and no one is likely to molest them. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

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The great vault brightened, like the dome of an immense lamp

From a distance they would be taken for two immense serpents of steel stretching themselves towards the crest of the plateau

Yet at the end of that immense stretch of time not even one instant of eternity could be said to have ended

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Health

By transplanting immature human immune tissues and/or immune cells into these mice, scientists have created an in vivo model that promises to be of immense value in advancing our understanding of the immune system. (references)

Business

The needs for environmental equipment and services are immense. (references)

The manufacturing sector is facing immense pressure from the public to use “green” products or face a competitive disadvantage. (references)

The Hong Kong Architectural Services Department has expressed immense interest in incorporating energy efficient features into new government buildings. (references)

Economic History

Oman

Oman does not have the immense oil resources of some of its neighbors. (references)

Zambia

The potential to cut and polish marble, precious stones, gemstones and malachite for export is immense. (references)

Russia

However, logging is accompanied by immense losses of raw materials - as much as 25% of the felled timber. (references)

Political Rights

Zimbabwe

The Government invested immense powers in the presidency through the Electoral Act, which institutionalized gerrymandering and fraudulent voters' rolls. (references)

Trade

Russia

Throughout the 1990s, capital flight of immense proportions plagued and seriously weakened the Russian economy. (references)

Korea

Traditionally, most trade and project financing has gone to large Korean conglomerates (chaebol), due to their perceived financial security and immense capital base. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Beginning with "immense": immense-changes.

Afrikaans

geweldig (enormous, huge), enorm (enormous, huge). (various references)

Albanian

i shkëlqyer (admirable, bright, brilliant, capital, choice, copybook, corking, crack, cracking, Dandy, divine, excellent, fabulous, famous, fantastic, fantastical, fine, first rate, flamboyant, gaudy, glazy, glorious, glossy, gorgeous, great, heavenly, marvellous, marvelous, perfect, pink, plum, powerful, prize, pukka, rare, ripping, royal, smashing, splendid, splendiferous, whizzbang, wicked), i pamasë (enormous, infinite, non-dimensional, tremendous), i pafund (abysmal, bottomless, boundless, dateless, endless, immeasurable, inexhaustible, infinite, interminable, lengthy, limitless, never ending, numberless, spaceless, unending, unlimited, vast, vasty), i paanë (endless, infinite, measureless, prodigious), vigan (colossal, enormous, giant, gigantesque, huge, jumbo, leviathan, mammoth, monster, mountainous, ogre, Samson, swingeing, Titanic, towering). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كبير (big, bulky, considerable, enormous, extent, formidable, full grown, grand, great, huge, king size, large, magnificent, major, massive, massy, senior, sizable, sweeping, tremendous, vast, voluminous, whacking, whopping), ‏هائل (astronomic, astronomical, awful, colossal, enormous, formidable, gargantuan, gigantesque, hugely, massive, mighty, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, outsize, oversize, portentous, prodigious, rip roaring, stupendous, terrific, thumping, thundering, titanic, towering, tremendous, whopping, wicked, wide), ‏واسع (ample, broad, capacious, colossal, extensive, fair, far flung, generous, large, mighty, oceanic, rich, spacious, wide, widish), ‏ضخم (astronomic, astronomical, awful, big, bulking, bulky, bull, colossal, colossus, considerable, distend, elephantine, enormous, exaggerate, extend, exuberant, fat, gargantuan, ghastly, giant, gigantic, goodly, grand, great, handsome, heavy, hefty, heroic, huge, hulking, husky, intense, jumbo, large, leviathan, liberal, mammoth, mass, massive, mighty, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, outsize, oversize, palatial, phenomenal, powerful, prodigious, proud, round, royal, sizable, smart, strapping, strong, stupendous, sublime, swingeing, tall, tidy, titan, titanic, towering, tremendous, vast, voluminous, whacking, whopping). (various references)

Bulgarian 

чудесен (admirable, beautiful, champion, clipping, cool, corking, delicious, elegant, excellent, fabulous, famous, fine, glorious, gorgeous, great, heavenly, hot, lovely, magnificent, marvellous, marvelous, neat, nifty, noble, priceless, rattling, regular, ripping, scrumptious, smashing, spanking, splendid, super, terrific, thundering, topping, walloping, wizard, wonderful), грамаден (enormous, exceeding, huge, immeasurable, lumping, monster, monstrous, mountainous, prodigious), великолепен (champion, colossal, glorious, gorgeous, grand, imperial, magnificent, palatial, pompous, princely, royal, smashing, splashing, splendid, super, superb, wonderful), отличен (alpha plus, banner, crack, excellent, fine, grand, groovy, master stroke, masterly, mean, nailing, peachy, pre eminent, prime, prize, roaring, slick, spanking, splendid, superb, unexceptionable, whizbang, wicked, wizard), необхватен (infinite, unfathomable), безмерен (unmeasured). (various references)

Chinese 

巨大 (enormous, gigantic, huge, tremendous, very large). (various references)

Czech

propastný (abysmal, vast), ohromný (dishy, enormous, formidable, gigantic, great, huge, mean, splendid, stupendous, terrific, towering, tremendous, vast, vasty, whacking), obrovský (colossal, enormous, giant, gigantic, howling, huge, jumbo, mountainous, Titanic, tremendous, untold, vastly, whacking, whopping), nesmírný (enormous, extreme, great, immeasurable, infinite, prodigious, rare, unbounded, utmost, vast), nedozírný (immeasurable, incalculable), enormní (formidable, huge, vast). (various references)

Dutch

gigantisch (enormous, gigantic, huge), geweldig (colossal, enormous, huge), enorm (enormous, enormously, huge). (various references)

Esperanto

vastega (abysmal), grandega (enormous, huge). (various references)

Faeroese

risastórur (enormous, huge). (various references)

Farsi 

پهناور (Ample, Broad, Extensive, Vast, Wide), ممتاز (Ditinct, Elite, Excellent, Good, Illustrious, Knockout, Preferential, Prize, Superior), کلان (Huge, Massive), گزاف (Bombastic, Costly, Exorbitant, Extortionary, Extravagant, High, Rodomontade, Steep, Stupendous, Tall, Unconscionable, Vainglory), وسیع (Abroad, Ample, Captious, Comprehensive, Extensive, Large, Roomy, Spacious, Vast, Wide), عالی (Beautiful, Brave, Capital, Excellent, Exquisite, Famous, Fine, Gallant, High, Knockout, Lofty, Much, Palmary, Remarkable, Ripping, Spiffy, Splendid, Super, Superb, Superlative, Supreme, Swank, Unrivaled), بیکران (Immeasurable, Indefinite, Infinite, Vast), بی اندازه (Immeasurable, Indefinite, Infinite, Inordinate), بسیارخوب (Excellent, Okay, Super, Superb, Well). (various references)

Finnish

valtava (enormous, huge, tremendous), suunnaton (colossal, enormous, huge, vast), ääretön (boundless, endless, enormous, huge, infinite, vast). (various references)

French

immense, énorme. (various references)

German

ungeheuer (atrocious, colossal, dreadful, egregious, egregiously, enormous, enormously, giant, huge, hugely, immensely, infinitely, inordinate, mammoth, monster, monsters, monstrosities, monstrous, monstrously, monumental, ogre, ogress, outrageous, prodigious, prodigiously, terror, tremendous), unermesslich (immeasurable, immeasurably, incalculable, measureless, unbounded, unmeasurable, unmeasured, untold, vast). (various references)

Greek 

παμμέγεθησ (huge), αχανήσ (cosmic, vast), τεράστιος (huge, massive, prodigious, vast). (various references)

Hebrew 

עצום (essence, force, gigantic, heavy, huge, massive, mighty, strength, thundering, tremendous, vast, walloping, whacking, whopping), ענקי (colossal, enormous, gargantuan, giant, gigantesque, gigantic, huge, mammoth, stupendous, walloping), כביר (enormous, grand, huge, mighty, stupendous, terrific, thundering, tremendous). (various references)

Hungarian

roppant (highly, howling, huge), óriási (capital, colossal, elephantine, enormous, gargantuan, giant, giantlike, gigantean, gigantesque, gigantic, grandiose, helluva, huge, immeasurable, jumbo, mammoth, monster, monstrous, mountainous, prodigious, smashing, smashing victory, stupendous, terrific, tremendous, vast, vasty, way-out, whacking, whopping). (various references)

Indonesian

besar sekali (cyclopian, gargantuan). (various references)

Italian

smisurato (enormous, immeasurable), enorme (awful, enormous, gargantuan, huge, mammoth, monster, swingeing, tremendous, walloping, whopping). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

洪大 (great). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぜつだい (a notice, tremendous), しだい (as soon as, circumstances, dependent upon, enormous, immediate, magazine's price, order, precedence, private university or college), どえらい (awful, great, hell of a lot, terrible, very serious), こうだい (extensive, future generations, grand, great, huge, impressive, magnificent, posterity, technical college, vast, very large). (various references)

Korean 

굉대한. (various references)

Manx

mooar ass towse. (various references)

Norwegian

ensom (dreary, gaunt, lonely, lonesome, remote). (various references)

Pig Latin

immenseay.(various references)

Polish

olbrzymi (enormous, huge). (various references)

Portuguese

imenso (big, huge, immeasurable, measureless, mountainous, multitudinous, unmeasured, untold, vast, vasty), enorme (big, bloodcurdling, cursed, deuced, enormous, gargantuan, gigantic, gross, howling, huge, large, mammoth, measureless, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, prodigious, rousing, stupendous, swingeing, terrific, thumping, thundering, tremendous, unco, unconscionable, untold, walloping, whacking, whopping). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

imenso. (various references)

Romanian

enorm (astonishing, awful, colossal, enormous, frightful, huge, hugely, hugeous, immensely, infinite, massive, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, prodigious, terrible, thundering, tremendous, vast, whopping). (various references)

Russian 

огромный (biggish, cosmic, devastating, enormous, enourmous, giantlike, huge, knock out, massive, monster, prodigious, terrific, tremendous, whacking, whopping). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ogroman (enormous, gargantuan, huge, jumbo, lumping, monster, oversized, stupendous, swingeing, tremendous, vast, vasty, whopping), nenadmašan (superlative, unimprovable, unsurpassed), neizmeran (bottomless, immeasurable, measureless, spanless, unmeasured). (various references)

Spanish

inmenso (beyond measure, huge, soaring, tremendous). (various references)

Swedish

omätlig (boundless, fathomless, immeasurable, oceanic, untold), ofantlig (enormous, monster). (various references)

Thai

มโหฬาร (gargantuan). (various references)

Turkish

uçsuz bucaksız (endless, limitless, no end in sight, shoreless, vast), muazzam (colossal, egregious, enormous, fab, grandiose, great, howling, huge, magnific, magnifical, mighty, puissant, spanking, stupendous, tremendous, whacking), mükemmel (accomplished, all around, alpha plus, ambrosial, bang up, banner, beyond praise, bully, capital, champion, classic, classical, classy, commanding, complete, consummate, cool, copybook, Dandy, dreamy, elegant, excellent, famous, famously, faultless, fine, finished, first class, great, jolly good, no mean, par excellence, perfect, ripping, scrumptious, slap up, smashing, smooth, solid, sovereign, spiffing, spiffy, splendid, splendiferous, super, superb, superlative, that takes the cake, the dandy, thorough, thoroughgoing, tiptop, to a turn, to the nines, topping, triumphant, unique), harika (beautiful, bully, cool, corking, divine, fabulous, fantastic, fantastical, far out, gorgeous, groovy, in the groove, jolly good, keen, marvel, marvellous, marvelous, miracle, no mean, old, phenomenal, phenomenon, prodigious, prodigy, ripping, scrumptious, splendid, swell, whizz, wicked, wizard, wonder, wonderful, wondrous, yummy, yum-yum), engin (boundless, exalted, extensive, offing, wide). (various references)

Turkmen 

зensiz (immeasurable), зaksyz (immeasurable). (various references)

Ukrainian

чудовий (a, admirable, adorable, ambrosial, bang up, beautiful, brave, bright, bully, capital, champion, charming, clinking, consummate, crack, Dandy, delectable, delicious, delightful, eminent, excellent, fine, flawless, glorious, goluptious, gorgeous, magnific, magnifical, magnificent, noble, notable, noted, palmary, peachy, posh, prime, princely, proper, providential, ravishing, remarkable, resplendent, ripping, something like, sovereign, spiffing, superb, super-duper, topping, undeniable, way out, wizard, wonderful), величезний (astronomic, astronomical, babylonian, banging, decuman, dimensionless, enormous, flagrant, formidable, giantlike, grandiose, great, handsome, huge, mighty, monstrous, mountainous, overwhelming, prodigious, slapping, swingeing, thumping, thundering, tremendous, vasty, walloping, whacking, whaling), неосяжний (rangy). (various references)

Vietnamese 

rất cừ, mênh mông (illimitable, immeasurable, unmeasurable, unmeasured, vast, vastly), chiến lắm, bao la (boundless, unmeasurable). (various references)

Welsh

enfawr (enormous, huge), eang (ample, broad, wide), dirfawr (enormous, huge, vast). (various references)

immensus, inmensa, inmensae, inmensas, inmensis, inmensos, inmensum, inmensus, innumera, innumerabile, innumerabilem, innumerabiles, innumerabili, innumerabilia, innumerabilibus, innumerabilis, innumerabilium, innumeri, innumeris, vastus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "immense": immensely, immenseness, immensenesses, immenser, immensest. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Immense" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Emmence, emmense, emmonbee, Imbens, imense, iminse, immemse, immence, Immensee, immensey, inmense, invense, Kimmeens, Ximenes. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: memes, mense, mesne, miens, mimes, mines, neems, seine, semen.

-3 letters: emes, meme, mems, mien, mime, mine, mise, neem, nims, seem, seen, seme, semi, sene, sine.

-4 letters: eme, ems, ens, ins, ism, mem, men, mim, mis, nee, nim, see, sei, sen, sim, sin.

-5 letters: em, en, es, in, is, me, mi, mm, ne, si.

+1 letter: endemism, immenser.

+2 letters: ecumenism, endemisms, immensely, immensest, meantimes, melamines.

+3 letters: demimondes, ecumenisms, immanences, imminences, implements, merriments, metonymies, mincemeats, misdeeming, mismeeting, misnomered, missilemen, remitments.

+4 letters: determinism, ecumenicism, embodiments, eudaemonism, gumminesses, hamminesses, immanencies, immenseness, immensities, imminencies, immurements, impalements, impediments, impressment, manometries, medicaments, meitneriums, mesmerising, mesmerizing, misdemeanor, neurilemmas, reimmersing.

+5 letters: amphetamines, anemometries, chumminesses, clamminesses, commanderies, commentaries, crumminesses, demolishment, determinisms, discommended, dismembering, ecumenicisms, embroilments, empoisonment, eudaemonisms, geomagnetism, immensurable, impeachments, imperilments, impingements, implementers, implementors, impressments, improvements, mainstreamed, masterminded, mendeleviums, methenamines, methylamines, misdemeanant, misdemeanors, misesteeming, misplacement, misstatement, mistreatment, simpleminded, smarminesses.