immense
pronunciation
How to pronounce immense in British English:
UK [ɪˈmens]
How to pronounce immense in American English:
US [ɪˈmens]
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- Adjective:
- unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope
Word Origin
- immense
- immense: see measure
- immense (adj.)
- early 15c., from Middle French immense (mid-14c.), from Latin immensus "immeasurable, boundless," from assimilated form of in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + mensus "measured," past participle of metiri (see measure). For instance, a long while every thing was immense great and immense little, immense handsome and immense ugly. Miss Tippet from the cloisters, could not drink tea with Master Parchment at the White Conduit-house, unless it was an immense fine day, yet probably it might rain so immense, there was no going without a coach. ["Town and Country Magazine" (in "Annual Register" for 1772)]
Synonym
Example
- 1. Still , o'neil argues , the opportunities for growth are immense in china .
- 2. This synchronous behavior proved to be an immense advantage .
- 3. That is a sign of its immense potential .
- 4. Its rhetorical force is immense .
- 5. China creates immense opportunities , but it also brings new risks .