Immense

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -É›ns

Origin

From Middle French immense, from Latin immensus, from in- ("not") + mensus ("measured").

Full definition of immense

Adjective

1. Huge, gigantic, very large.
• 1918, W. B. Maxwell, The Mirror and the Lamp Chapter 5, 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 seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.
2. Supremely good.

Synonyms

Related terms

• immensely
• immensity