immense Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope
    huge; Brobdingnagian; vast.
    • 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

WordNet

Im*mense" adjective
Etymology
L. immensus; pref. im- not + mensus, p. p. of metiri to measure: cf. F. immense. See Measure.
Definitions
  1. Immeasurable; unlimited. In commonest use: Very great; vast; huge. "Immense the power" Pope. "Immense and boundless ocean." Daniel.
    O Goodness infinite! Goodness immense! Milton.
    Syn. -- Infinite; immeasurable; illimitable; unbounded; unlimited; interminable; vast; prodigious; enormous; monstrous. See Enormous.

Webster 1913