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IMMENSE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope
Example:
the vast accumulation of knowledge...which we call civilization
Synonyms:
Brobdingnagian; huge; immense; vast
Classified under:
Similar:
big; large (above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent)
Derivation:
immenseness; immensity (unusual largeness in size or extent or number)
Context examples:
The gases in the cloud move at unusual speeds, and the scientists believed they were being pulled by immense gravitational forces.
(Astronomers Find New Evidence for Long-theorized Mid-sized Black Holes, VOA News)
In the center of the image is the immense galaxy cluster Abell S1063, located 4 billion light-years away, and surrounded by magnified images of galaxies much farther.
(NASA’s Hubble Looks to the Final Frontier, NASA)
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) unveiled the first-ever image of a black hole's event horizon, the area beyond which light cannot escape the immense gravity of the black hole.
(The Giant Galaxy Around the Giant Black Hole, NASA)
We had the carriage to ourselves save for an immense litter of papers which Holmes had brought with him.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But, my dear girl, it's an immense house, and will take a power of money to keep it in order.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Their place was taken by an immense wilderness of bamboo, which grew so thickly that we could only penetrate it by cutting a pathway with the machetes and billhooks of the Indians.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“It is an immense distance,” said she; “I see that with a glance.”
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
You have saved my life: I have a pleasure in owing you so immense a debt.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
What an immense time Mrs Clay has been staying with Elizabeth!
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Immense dark storms on Neptune were first discovered in the late 1980s by NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft.
(Hubble Sees Neptune's Mysterious Shrinking Storm, NASA)
