| 单词 | immense |
| 释义 | immense (once / 129 pages) adj Immense means very large in size, amount, or degree. You might describe the ocean as immense, or your homework load, or the slice of cake your brother took, leaving you a tiny sliver. This word has an immense number of near synonyms: huge, great, enormous, vast, gigantic, colossal, mammoth, copious, tremendous are a few of the more common ones. If you're having immense difficulty deciding which word to use, just plain "very big" might do. WORD FAMILYimmense: immensely, immenseness, immenser, immensest, immensity+/immensity: immensities USAGE EXAMPLESFew athletes might be as prepared for a life after basketball than Kobe, a man of diverse interests and immense worldwide popularity. The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017) If Harwood’s prototype at the school was the Wright brothers’ first biplane, this immense scaled-up elaboration of it was a spaceship in drydock. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) In other words, the advantage of the bye and needing to win just one home game to get to a conference final is fairly immense. Seattle Times(Jan 01, 2017) adj unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope the Los Angeles aqueduct winds like an immense snake along the base of the mountains immense numbers of birds at vast (or immense) expense Syn Brobdingnagian, huge, vast big, large above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent |
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