immense

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Huge, gigantic, very large.

   Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.

2. 2
   adj

   Major; to a great degree.

   The gallant young Indian dandies at home on furlough—immense dandies these—chained and moustached—driving in tearing cabs […]

3. 3
   noun

   Immense extent or expanse; immensity.

   The half of Asia is my prison-house, Myriads of convicts lost in its Immense— I look with terror to my crowning day.

4. 4
   adj

   unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope

5. 5
   adj

   Supremely good.

Etymology

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