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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
immense
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a huge/vast/immense fortune
▪ Timothy was the heir to a vast fortune.
enormous/tremendous/immense popularity
▪ the enormous popularity of Coca-Cola
great/enormous/immense pleasure
▪ Steinbeck’s books have brought enormous pleasure to many people.
great/immense/deep hardship (=a lot of hardship)
▪ In the early years, the settlers faced great hardship.
immense charm (=very great)
▪ No one could resist his immense charm.
immense pride (=very great)
▪ He takes immense pride in his grandson.
immense/enormous satisfaction (=very great)
▪ The victory gave him immense satisfaction.
sb's immense gratitude (=being very grateful)
▪ He would like everyone to know about his immense gratitude for all their work.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
so
▪ The infusion of desire that rushed her was so immense that she obeyed instantly, drawing her legs up to his hips.
▪ It was so immense it did not twist like the others but in supreme majesty made its way down the turbulent chute.
▪ The sky was so immense it swallowed the landscape, but the land swallowed up the provenance of the sky.
■ NOUN
amount
▪ He had been given and had himself taken an immense amount out of that mining culture.
▪ There is an immense amount of space, an intoxicating amount.
▪ Once again an immense amount of credit had been earned by Alec Stewart.
▪ One where the fuel weighed very little but delivered an immense amount of power.
▪ They do an immense amount of work which is frequently unsung or unnoticed.
▪ Childebert's dux Guntram Boso is said to have captured an immense amount of gold and silver when Gundovald fled from Avignon.
▪ People who travel by rail still read an immense amount.
▪ The Profitboss therefore puts an immense amount of work into determining his final position prior to the negotiation.
benefit
▪ This type of welfare can have immense benefit not only to the child but to the family as a whole.
▪ Five myths about exercise Given the immense benefits of exercise, why do so many students try to avoid it?
▪ Yet the schools in which this coming together of parent and teacher in the service of children occurred had immense benefits.
difficulty
▪ About the immense difficulty that would undoubtedly be experienced by rescue teams.
▪ Only great eagerness to learn, on the part of the people, will make it possible to overcome immense difficulties here.
▪ Not badly at all, given the immense difficulty of restoring credibility to Labour as a party of government.
effort
▪ But the achievement of all those goals will require an immense effort, and will not come without tears.
▪ It required an immense effort from the Kop defence and midfield to contain the visitors.
importance
▪ This demonstrates the immense importance of the detector in the overall performance of the zoned system.
▪ Yet, if one really considers it, what is at stake is of immense importance, and can not be ignored.
▪ In the Gulf war the United Nations played a part of immense importance.
▪ It is however, of immense importance, so to speak, from another angle.
▪ In either case, its initialling at Maastricht by Heads of Government on 10 December 1991 was an event of immense importance.
▪ His success will be of immense importance to each and every Bank Official in the future.
▪ Like the Council, we place immense importance on the outcome of last year's Earth Summit.
popularity
▪ That sense is still lacking on the World Wide Web, despite its immense popularity.
power
▪ Yet from that very still place immense power emerges.
▪ The United States had towns and industries that were already flourishing; it also had immense powers of persuasion and assimilation.
▪ He could sense an immense power enveloping the planet, and knew his death was only hours away.
▪ This ensures that the pilot does not use the immense power of hydraulically operated controls to over-stress the structure of his aeroplane.
▪ A magic-wielding character of immense power, the Great Enchanter lived for untold centuries.
▪ Hearing them live, you realised that their voices have immense power as well as great beauty.
▪ He gazed for a long time at the Prime Minister's empty chair, exulting in his own immense power.
pressure
▪ Mr Lamont declared the Tories stuck to their election pledges but he faces immense pressure to balance the books.
▪ He is under immense pressure to freeze benefit increases in the coming year for the jobless, the infirm, and pensioners.
▪ During the approaching round the time would come, inevitably, when he would have to play a shot under immense pressure.
▪ Open space has come under immense pressures from developments such as housing and road building, or neglected due to lack of resources.
▪ It's helping them to understand the immense pressures on them to stay for ever in the closet.
pride
▪ He loves his county and has taken immense pride in the wholesale jubilation at the football team's success.
relief
▪ The verdict came as an immense relief for Mr Major, who put his job on the line over the Maastricht Treaty.
▪ At these words, immense relief flooded me as the burden of lies I had helped create lifted off my shoulders.
▪ Male speaker Chiefly there's a feeling of immense relief.
▪ To their immense relief and great pleasure it played to capacity audiences.
▪ It was with immense relief that he drove in and killed the engine.
satisfaction
▪ I felt immense loss and immense satisfaction at the same time.
▪ Yet it is very simple to prepare and offers immense satisfaction for those who follow some simple guidelines.
size
▪ Squids grow to an immense size.
▪ The immense size and power of the Government of the United States ought not obscure its fundamental character.
▪ Only fragments remain but these show the immense size of the building, over 400 feet in length.
▪ At first, I thought it was because of his immense size.
value
▪ The mounting of school productions and active involvement in community or touring theatre initiatives are thus of immense value.
▪ Hierarchy has added immense value to the world, and pundits who call for its demise are either fools or cynics.
▪ These pilot studies are often of immense value in the design of more systematic and more extensive social surveys.
▪ The work of Ptolemy thus took on immense value because of its utility.
▪ Such dating methods are still of immense value today.
▪ I thoroughly recommend it as of immense value to students at every level.
▪ But still I feel that one more thing of immense value must have been taken away with that wagon.
variety
▪ Which came first and why should there be such an immense variety?
wealth
▪ Hamilton was one of those unfortunate men who have inherited immense wealth but not a lot more.
▪ His campaign machine, oiled by his immense wealth, was superbly efficient under the management of his brother, Robert.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ 60 million years ago, the whole area was an immense desert.
▪ an immense palace
▪ Migrating birds cover immense distances every winter.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Also, that in spite of the immense price difference between various designs, the basic china was of exactly the same high standard.
▪ Debates were abandoned in the 1964, 1968 and 1972 campaigns, largely because of candidates' concerns about their immense impact.
▪ His general attitude is one of an untiring and immense courtesy and helpfulness.
▪ It bears repeating that the photograph opens up an immense visual field.
▪ It was only a dim personification: something vague and immense which with its motion brought about change and therefore was alive.
▪ More than that, they were searching for a tiny trickle in an immense sea.
▪ Perhaps we are born with an immense desire for knowledge, which can be obtained from books.
▪ Which came first and why should there be such an immense variety?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Immense

Immense \Im*mense"\, a. [L. immensus; pref. im- not + mensus, p. p. of metiri to measure: cf. F. immense. See Measure.] Immeasurable; unlimited. In commonest use: Very great; vast; huge. ``Immense the power''
--Pope. ``Immense and boundless ocean.''
--Daniel.

O Goodness infinite! Goodness immense!
--Milton.

Syn: Infinite; immeasurable; illimitable; unbounded; unlimited; interminable; vast; prodigious; enormous; monstrous. See Enormous.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
immense

early 15c., from Middle French immense (mid-14c.), from Latin immensus "immeasurable, boundless," from assimilated form of in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + mensus "measured," past participle of metiri (see measure).\n\nFor instance, a long while every thing was immense great and immense little, immense handsome and immense ugly. Miss Tippet from the cloisters, could not drink tea with Master Parchment at the White Conduit-house, unless it was an immense fine day, yet probably it might rain so immense, there was no going without a coach.

["Town and Country Magazine" (in "Annual Register" for 1772)]

Wiktionary
immense

a. huge, gigantic, very large.

WordNet
immense

adj. unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope; "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"- W.R.Inge [syn: huge, vast, Brobdingnagian]

Usage examples of "immense".

I have known from my childhood that there is such a science as the one you profess, and I was acquainted with a Jew who by its aid made an immense fortune.

When one views the intricacies of adaptation of the San in the Kalahari or the Inuit of the far north, it is apparent that the huge body of knowledge that enables these human cultures to adapt to such extremes was cultured over immense lengths of time.

His grief is too immense and his loss too heavy to be adequately expressed in words.

Faith has suffered through the passing of the Greatest Holy Leaf is too immense to be adequately expressed in words, and we cannot fully realize its significance at the present stage of the evolution of the Cause.

The booty that fell into the hands of the Goths was immense: the wealth of the adjacent countries had been deposited in Trebizond, as in a secure place of refuge.

But at that moment an adjutant galloped up with a message from the commander of the regiment in the hollow and news that immense masses of the French were coming down upon them and that his regiment was in disorder and was retreating upon the Kiev grenadiers.

He had, in fact, crossed the designs of no less a power than the German Empire, he had blundered into the hot focus of Welt-Politik, he was drifting helplessly towards the great Imperial secret, the immense aeronautic park that had been established at a headlong pace in Franconia to develop silently, swiftly, and on an immense scale the great discoveries of Hunstedt and Stossel, and so to give Germany before all other nations a fleet of airships, the air power and the Empire of the world.

British, nervous for their Asiatic empire, and sensible of the immense moral effect of the airship upon half-educated populations, had placed their aeronautic parks in North India, and were able to play but a subordinate part in the European conflict.

There were also environmental enclosures, immense ones, containing not just aeroponics and hydroponics, but parks, groves of trees, and what appeared to be open bodies of water.

Is there not something horrible in the look and sound of the word afanc, something connected with the opening and shutting of immense jaws, and the swallowing of writhing prey?

As I looked from the albergo I could see a gradation of colours, from the purple red to the deepest of sea blue, rising like an immense tent from the dark green of the trees and the fields, here and there dotted with little white houses, with their red roofs, while in front the Luzzara Tower rose majestically in the twilight.

The Alcalde, a man of immense importance in his own estimation, hesitated before accepting it.

From here, Alec saw that the mosaic on the floor below depicted an immense, scarlet dragon crowned with a silver crescent.

Balance of Solomon, the Alkahest, to serve the Spouses, when they are laid on the nuptial bed, there to engender their embryo, producing for the human race immense treasures, that will last as long as the world endures.

Next came soldiers from the army of the Ancestress who carried an immense canopy of phoenix-embroidered yellow silk, and beneath the canopy were bonzes who pulled twelve bejeweled carts.