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English Dictionary: immense	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for immense
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
immense adj 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 Synonym(s): huge, immense, vast, Brobdingnagian
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Immense \Immense"\, 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. [bd]Immense* the power[b8] --Pope. [bd]Immense and boundless ocean.[b8] --Daniel. O Goodness infinite! Goodness immense! --Milton. Syn: Infinite; immeasurable; illimitable; unbounded; unlimited; interminable; vast; prodigious; enormous; monstrous. See {Enormous}.