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say it: im-ENS
immense is an adjective meaning "unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope". It is pronounced /ˌɪˈmɛns/ — im-ENS. It carries one recorded sense.
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for immense come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.