Immense

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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