immense

im·mense

I0047500 (ĭ-mĕns′)adj.1. Very great in size, extent, or amount: an immense cloud.2. Of great scope or consequence: immense difficulty. See Synonyms at enormous.

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[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin immēnsus : in-, not; see in-¹ + mēnsus, past participle of mētīrī, to measure; see mē- in Indo-European roots.]

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im·mense′ly adv.im·mense′ness n.

immense

(ɪˈmɛns) adj1. unusually large; huge; vast2. without limits; immeasurable3. informal very good; excellent[C15: from Latin immensus, literally: unmeasured, from im- (not) + mensus measured, from mētīrī to measure] imˈmensely adv imˈmenseness n

im•mense

(ɪˈmɛns)

adj. 1. vast; immeasurable: an immense territory. 2. splendid; excellent. [1400–50; late Middle English < Latin immēnsus= im-² + mēnsus, past participle of mētīrī to measure] im•mense′ly, adv. im•mense′ness, n. syn: See huge.

Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

immense - 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.Ingehuge, vast, Brobdingnagianbig, large - above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent; "a large city"; "set out for the big city"; "a large sum"; "a big (or large) barn"; "a large family"; "big businesses"; "a big expenditure"; "a large number of newspapers"; "a big group of scientists"; "large areas of the world"

immense

adjective huge, great, massive, vast, large, giant, enormous, extensive, tremendous, mega (slang), titanic, infinite, jumbo (informal), very big, gigantic, monumental, monstrous, mammoth, colossal, mountainous, stellar (informal), prodigious, interminable, stupendous, king-size, king-sized, fuck-off (offensive taboo slang), immeasurable, elephantine, ginormous (informal), Brobdingnagian, illimitable, humongous or humungous (U.S. slang) an immense cloud of smoke
little, small, minute, tiny, microscopic, minuscule, puny, infinitesimal

immense

adjectiveOf extraordinary size and power:behemoth, Brobdingnagian, Bunyanesque, colossal, cyclopean, elephantine, enormous, gargantuan, giant, gigantesque, gigantic, herculean, heroic, huge, jumbo, mammoth, massive, massy, mastodonic, mighty, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, prodigious, pythonic, stupendous, titanic, tremendous, vast.Informal: walloping.Slang: whopping.

Translations

巨大的

immense

(iˈmens) adjective very large or very great. an immense forest; immense amounts of money. 巨大的 巨大的imˈmensely adverb 非常地，極大地 非常地，极大地 imˈmensity noun 巨大 巨大