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UK
/ɪmˈɛns/
]
[ US /ˌɪˈmɛns/ ]
[ US /ˌɪˈmɛns/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope
a huge wave
the vast reaches of outer space
the Los Angeles aqueduct winds like an immense snake along the base of the mountains
huge country estates
at vast (or immense) expense
the vast accumulation of knowledge...which we call civilization
immense numbers of birds
huge popular demand for higher education
huge government spending
How To Use immense In A Sentence
- Not only by the immense number of adherents that were won to his views during his lifetime, but also by the literary productions he left behind him, Tsong K'aba's influence has been great during the last five centuries of Tibetan history. With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior
- The League Against Cruel Sports issued a statement Wednesday calling on Ottawa to "take steps to end the immense cruelty to animals in events such as calf-roping, which is practised at rodeos including the Calgary Stampede. CTV BritishColumbiaHome
- It has an immense bill, and in breeding season its distensible gular pouch is olive to red.
- Here is nobly born quartz living with a green mineral, called epidote; and they are immense friends. The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing
- A leading rocket scientist, Nair's contribution to the development of multistage satellite launch vehicles is immense.
- The mutual back-scratching by which executive pay is currently set is ridiculous, and is an immense waste of the resources of public companies that ridiculously over-pay the back-scratchers .. 'Say on pay' moves full speed ahead
- He was an immensely charming, kind, lovable man. Times, Sunday Times
- And the result doesn't just require immensely versatile singers, but a pit band that can carry out his exacting demands. Times, Sunday Times
- They can cause dust devils and whirlwinds, though these are nothing when compared to the immense dust storms that can occur.
- She usually wore a dress of dark gray stuff, with immense pockets, a black silk neckerchief folded over her shoulders, a white tamboured muslin cap, with a black ribbon passed two or three times round the crown. Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel