FromMiddle Frenchimmense, fromLatinimmensus, fromin-(“not”) +mensus(“measured”). Compareincommensurable.
immense (comparativeimmenser,superlativeimmensest)
- Huge,gigantic, verylarge.
1918,W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, inThe Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.:The Bobbs-Merrill Company,→OCLC:Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly,[…], down the nave to the western door.[…] At a seeminglyimmense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.
- (colloquial)Supremely good.
- (colloquial) Major; to a great degree.
huge, gigantic, very large
- Arabic:عِمْلاق(ʕimlāq)
- Bulgarian:грамаден (bg)(gramaden),огромен (bg)(ogromen)
- Catalan:immens (ca)
- Cherokee:ᎤᎪᏗᏗ(ugodidi)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:廣大 /广大 (zh)(guǎngdà),巨大 (zh)(jùdà)
- Czech:ohromný (cs)
- Dutch:immens (nl)
- Esperanto:grandega
- Finnish:suunnaton (fi),suunnattomansuuri,valtava (fi)
- French:immense (fr)
- Galician:inmenso (gl) m
- German:immens (de)
- Greek:
- Ancient:παμμεγέθης(pammegéthēs)
- Hungarian:mérhetetlen (hu),roppant (hu)
- Irish:ábhal
- Italian:immenso (it)
- Japanese:広大 (ja)(こうだい, kōdai),莫大 (ja)(ばくだい, bakudai)
- Korean:거대한(geodaehan)
- Latin:immensus
- Latvian:milzīgs,gigantisks
- Ligurian:grandìscimu
- Norman:înmense
- Norwegian:gigantisk
- Polish:ogromny (pl),przeogromny (pl),niezmierny (pl)
- Portuguese:imenso (pt),enorme (pt)
- Rapa Nui:nui nui
- Romanian:imens (ro),uriaș (ro)
- Russian:огро́мный (ru)(ogrómnyj),гига́нтский (ru)(gigántskij),непоме́рный (ru) m(nepomérnyj),неизмери́мый (ru)(neizmerímyj)
- Scottish Gaelic:an-mhòr
- Spanish:inmenso (es)
- Thai:มหึมา(má-hʉ̀-maa),มหาศาล (th)(máhăa săan)
- Turkish:kocaman (tr)
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immense (pluralimmenses)
- (poetic) Immenseextent orexpanse;immensity.
1882,James Thomson (B. V.),Despotism Tempered by Dynamite:The half of Asia is my prison-house,
Myriads of convicts lost in itsImmense—
I look with terror to my crowning day.
1994,New Times International, numbers1-8, page 9:The events that took place in theimmenses 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:[…]
immense
- inflection ofimmens:
- masculine/femininesingularattributive
- definiteneutersingularattributive
- pluralattributive
Learned borrowing fromLatinimmēnsus.
immense (pluralimmenses)
- immense,huge
- Synonyms:énorme,incommensurable
immense f pl
- feminineplural ofimmenso
immēnse
- vocativemasculinesingular ofimmēnsus
