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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope;
- Example: "huge government spending"
- Example: "huge country estates"
- Example: "huge popular demand for higher education"
- Example: "a huge wave"
- Example: "the Los Angeles aqueduct winds like an immense snake along the base of the mountains"
- Example: "immense numbers of birds"
- Example: "at vast (or immense) expense"
- Example: "the vast reaches of outer space"
- Example: "the vast accumulation of knowledge...which we call civilization"- W.R.Inge
[syn: huge, immense, vast, Brobdingnagian]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

immense
    adj 1: 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, immense, vast,
           Brobdingnagian]