immense
adjective
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Just how big is something if it is immense? Huge? Colossal? Humongous? Ginormous? Or merely enormous? Immense is often used as a synonym of all of the above and, as such, can simply function as yet another way for English speakers to say "really, really, really big." But immense is also used in a sense which goes beyond merely really, really, really big to describe something that is so great in size or degree that it transcends ordinary means of measurement. This sense harks back to the original sense of immense for something which is so tremendously big (such as, say, the universe) that it has not been or cannot be measured. This sense reflects the word's roots in the Latin immensus, from in- ("un-") and mensus, the past participle of metiri, "to measure."
Examples of immense in a Sentence
Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 19 June 2025
People of all ages gather at the river in the above photograph, with family bungalow houses and immense greenery receding into the distance.
—Diane Cole, NPR, 19 June 2025
Phillips faces a series of immense challenges in the top content role that paid out £468,000 ($630,000) last year.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 18 June 2025
This echoes the sense the previews gave, that this had taken the immense amount of feedback and criticism from the (still very successful) Borderlands 3.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
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“Immense.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/immense. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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