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immense adjective [ ɪˈmɛns ]

• extremely large or great, especially in scale or degree.
• "the cost of restoration has been immense"
Similar: huge, vast, massive, enormous, gigantic, colossal, cosmic, great, very large, very big, extensive, expansive, monumental, towering, mountainous, tremendous, prodigious, substantial, giant, elephantine, monstrous, mammoth, titanic, Brobdingnagian, king-size, king-sized, mega, monster, whopping, whopping great, thumping, thumping great, humongous, jumbo, hulking, whacking, whacking great, ginormous,
Opposite: tiny,
Origin: late Middle English: via French from Latin immensus ‘immeasurable’, from in- ‘not’ + mensus ‘measured’ (past participle of metiri ).


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