"immense" meaning in English

See immense in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ɪˈmɛns/ Audio: en-us-immense.ogg Forms: immenser [comparative], immensest [superlative]
Rhymes: -ɛns Etymology: From Middle French immense, from Latin immensus, from in- (“not”) + mensus (“measured”). Compare incommensurable. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*meh₁-}}, {{uder|en|frm|immense}} Middle French immense, {{uder|en|la|immensus}} Latin immensus Head templates: {{en-adj|immenser}} immense (comparative immenser, superlative immensest)
  1. Huge, gigantic, very large. Translations (huge, gigantic, very large): παμμεγέθης (pammegéthēs) (Ancient Greek), عِمْلاق (ʕimlāq) (Arabic), грамаден (gramaden) (Bulgarian), огромен (ogromen) (Bulgarian), immens (Catalan), ᎤᎪᏗᏗ (ugodidi) (Cherokee), 廣大 (Chinese Mandarin), 广大 (guǎngdà) (Chinese Mandarin), 巨大 (jùdà) (Chinese Mandarin), ohromný (Czech), immens (Dutch), grandega (Esperanto), suunnaton (Finnish), suunnattoman suuri (Finnish), valtava (Finnish), immense (French), inmenso [masculine] (Galician), immens (German), mérhetetlen (Hungarian), roppant (Hungarian), ábhal (Irish), immenso (Italian), 広大 (kōdai) (alt: こうだい) (Japanese), 莫大 (bakudai) (alt: ばくだい) (Japanese), 거대한 (geodaehan) (Korean), immensus (Latin), milzīgs (Latvian), gigantisks (Latvian), grandìscimu (Ligurian), înmense (Norman), gigantisk (Norwegian), ogromny (Polish), przeogromny (Polish), niezmierny (Polish), imenso (Portuguese), enorme (Portuguese), nui nui (Rapa Nui), imens (Romanian), uriaș (Romanian), огро́мный (ogrómnyj) (Russian), гига́нтский (gigántskij) (Russian), непоме́рный (nepomérnyj) [masculine] (Russian), неизмери́мый (neizmerímyj) (Russian), an-mhòr (Scottish Gaelic), inmenso (Spanish), มหึมา (má-hʉ̀-maa) (Thai), มหาศาล (máhăa săan) (Thai), kocaman (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-immense-en-adj-3nyBLooQ Disambiguation of 'huge, gigantic, very large': 98 1 2
  2. (colloquial) Supremely good. Tags: colloquial Translations (supremely good): великолепен (velikolepen) (Bulgarian), immenso (Italian), maravilhoso (Portuguese), ótimo (Portuguese), потряса́ющий (potrjasájuščij) (Russian), сногсшиба́тельный (snogsšibátelʹnyj) (Russian)
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  3. (colloquial) Major; to a great degree. Tags: colloquial
    Sense id: en-immense-en-adj-nwmEfdKr
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: immensely, immensity

Noun

IPA: /ɪˈmɛns/ Audio: en-us-immense.ogg Forms: immenses [plural]
Rhymes: -ɛns Etymology: From Middle French immense, from Latin immensus, from in- (“not”) + mensus (“measured”). Compare incommensurable. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*meh₁-}}, {{uder|en|frm|immense}} Middle French immense, {{uder|en|la|immensus}} Latin immensus Head templates: {{en-noun}} immense (plural immenses)
  1. (poetic) Immense extent or expanse; immensity. Tags: poetic
    Sense id: en-immense-en-noun-i-mXnqHb

Inflected forms

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      "expansion": "Latin immensus",
      "name": "uder"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle French immense, from Latin immensus, from in- (“not”) + mensus (“measured”). Compare incommensurable.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "immenses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "immense (plural immenses)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1882, James Thomson (B. V.), Despotism Tempered by Dynamite:",
          "text": "The half of Asia is my prison-house,\nMyriads of convicts lost in its Immense—\nI look with terror to my crowning day.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1994, New Times International, numbers 1-8, page 9:",
          "text": "The events that took place in the immenses of the former USSR three years ago remind one about ancient rule of everyday life which is equally applicable both to daily routine and to politics: […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Immense extent or expanse; immensity."
      ],
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          "extent",
          "extent"
        ],
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        ],
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          "immensity",
          "immensity"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(poetic) Immense extent or expanse; immensity."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "poetic"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ɪˈmɛns/"
    },
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      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/87/En-us-immense.ogg/En-us-immense.ogg.mp3",
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    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛns"
    }
  ],
  "word": "immense"
}

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