Standard Lemma guide

immense

adj · noun · 5 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • /ɪˈmɛns/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -ɛns
  • CMU ARPABET: IH2 M EH1 N S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

Huge, gigantic, very large.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

adj

Meaning 2

Supremely good.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: colloquial

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

adj

Meaning 3

Major; to a great degree.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: colloquial

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

Immense extent or expanse; immensity.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: poetic

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

adjective satellite

Meaning 5

unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope- W.R.Inge

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • 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

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: huge, vast, Brobdingnagian

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From Middle English immens, inmens, from Old French immense, from Latin immensus, from in- (“not”) + mensus (“measured”). Compare incommensurable.

Across languages

Translations

53 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: عِمْلاق (ʕimlāq) — huge, gigantic, very large
  • Bulgarian: грамаден (gramaden) — huge, gigantic, very large
  • Bulgarian: огромен (ogromen) — huge, gigantic, very large
  • Catalan: immens — huge, gigantic, very large
  • Cherokee: ᎤᎪᏗᏗ (ugodidi) — huge, gigantic, very large
  • Chinese Mandarin: 廣大 /广大 (guǎngdà) — huge, gigantic, very large
  • Chinese Mandarin: 巨大 (jùdà) — huge, gigantic, very large
  • Czech: ohromný — huge, gigantic, very large
  • Dutch: immens — huge, gigantic, very large
  • Esperanto: grandega — huge, gigantic, very large
  • Finnish: suunnaton — huge, gigantic, very large
  • Finnish: suunnattoman suuri — huge, gigantic, very large
  • Finnish: valtava — huge, gigantic, very large
  • French: immense — huge, gigantic, very large
  • Galician: inmenso — huge, gigantic, very large
  • German: immens — huge, gigantic, very large
  • Ancient Greek: παμμεγέθης (pammegéthēs) — huge, gigantic, very large
  • Hungarian: mérhetetlen — huge, gigantic, very large
  • Hungarian: roppant — huge, gigantic, very large
  • Irish: ábhal — huge, gigantic, very large
  • Italian: immenso — huge, gigantic, very large
  • Japanese: 広大 (kōdai) — huge, gigantic, very large
  • Japanese: 莫大 (bakudai) — huge, gigantic, very large
  • Korean: 거대한 (geodaehan) — huge, gigantic, very large
  • Latin: immensus — huge, gigantic, very large
  • Latvian: milzīgs — huge, gigantic, very large
  • Latvian: gigantisks — huge, gigantic, very large
  • Ligurian: grandìscimu — huge, gigantic, very large
  • Norman: înmense — huge, gigantic, very large
  • Norwegian: gigantisk — huge, gigantic, very large
  • Polish: ogromny — huge, gigantic, very large
  • Polish: przeogromny — huge, gigantic, very large
  • Polish: niezmierny — huge, gigantic, very large
  • Portuguese: imenso — huge, gigantic, very large
  • Portuguese: enorme — huge, gigantic, very large
  • Rapa Nui: nui nui — huge, gigantic, very large
  • Romanian: imens — huge, gigantic, very large
  • Romanian: uriaș — huge, gigantic, very large
  • Russian: огро́мный (ogrómnyj) — huge, gigantic, very large
  • Russian: гига́нтский (gigántskij) — huge, gigantic, very large
  • Russian: непоме́рный (nepomérnyj) — huge, gigantic, very large
  • Russian: неизмери́мый (neizmerímyj) — huge, gigantic, very large
  • Scottish Gaelic: an-mhòr — huge, gigantic, very large
  • Spanish: inmenso — huge, gigantic, very large
  • Thai: มหึมา (má-hʉ̀-maa) — huge, gigantic, very large
  • Thai: มหาศาล (máhăa săan) — huge, gigantic, very large
  • Turkish: kocaman — huge, gigantic, very large
  • Bulgarian: великолепен (velikolepen) — supremely good
  • Italian: immenso — supremely good
  • Portuguese: maravilhoso — supremely good
  • Portuguese: ótimo — supremely good
  • Russian: потряса́ющий (potrjasájuščij) — supremely good
  • Russian: сногсшиба́тельный (snogsšibátelʹnyj) — supremely good
Real reading context

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