Immense \Im*mense"\, a. [L. immensus; pref. im- not + mensus, p.
p. of metiri to measure: cf. F. immense. See Measure.]
Immeasurable; unlimited. In commonest use: Very great; vast;
huge. "Immense the power" --Pope. "Immense and boundless
ocean." --Daniel.
[1913 Webster]
O Goodness infinite! Goodness immense! --Milton.
Syn: Infinite; immeasurable; illimitable; unbounded;
unlimited; interminable; vast; prodigious; enormous;
monstrous. See Enormous.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
immense
adj : 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 [syn: huge, vast, Brobdingnagian]
WordNet (r) 2.0
110 Moby Thesaurus words for "immense":
Atlantean, Brobdingnagian, Cyclopean, Gargantuan, Herculean,
Homeric, abysmal, all-comprehensive, all-inclusive, amplitudinous,
astronomic, astronomical, awesome, boundless, bulky, colossal,
cosmic, countless, divine, elephantine, endless, enormous, epic,
eternal, exhaustless, exquisite, extending everywhere, extensive,
galactic, giant, giantlike, gigantic, gilt-edged, glorious, golden,
heavenly, heroic, huge, humongous, illimitable, illimited,
immeasurable, incalculable, incomprehensible, inexhaustible,
infinite, infinitely continuous, innumerable, interminable,
interminate, jumbo, king-size, large, limitless, magnificent,
mammoth, marvelous, massive, massy, measureless, mighty, monster,
monstrous, monumental, mountainous, no end of, outsize, overgrown,
perpetual, prodigious, profound, sensational, shoreless, sizable,
spacious, splendid, splendiferous, staggering, sterling,
stupendous, sumless, super, superb, supereminent, superexcellent,
superfine, termless, terrific, titanic, towering, tremendous,
unbounded, uncircumscribed, unfathomable, universal, unlimited,
unmeasurable, unmeasured, unnumbered, unplumbed, untold, vast,
voluminous, weighty, without bound, without end, without limit,
without measure, without number, wonderful
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
Brobdingnagian, huge, vast
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