# immense

Pronunciation: say "i-MENS" /ɪˈmɛns/

## Adjective

1. Extremely large in size, extent, or scale.
   - Simple: Very large in size or amount.
   - _The cathedral's immense dome dominated the city skyline._
   - _An immense, featureless plain stretched toward the distant hills._
2. Very great in degree or significance; major. *(colloquial)*
   - Simple: Very great in amount or importance.
   - _Her steady support during the crisis was of immense importance._
   - _The treatment had an immense impact on patients' recovery times._
3. Extremely good; excellent. *(colloquial)*
   - Simple: Extremely good or impressive.
   - _The band's final set was immense, and the crowd went wild._
   - _Reviewers agreed her debut performance was immense._

## Noun

4. Boundless extent or expanse; vastness conceived as a thing in itself. *(literary)*
   - Simple: A huge open space that seems to go on without end.
   - _The poet wrote of a lone soul adrift in the immense._
   - _Beyond the harbor lights lay the immense, dark and silent._

## Origin

It comes from Middle English immens, from Old French immense, from Latin immensus, formed from in- ("not") plus mensus ("measured"), literally "unmeasured" or "immeasurable."

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