immense

/i'mens/

Thân thiện

An immense mountain range stretches across the horizon.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Extremely large; enormous; vast: Used to describe something of unusually great size, extent, amount, or degree. It emphasizes a scale that is difficult to comprehend or measure.

Usage

The word "immense" is used to emphasize the extraordinary scale or intensity of something. It is a strong adjective, often used in formal or descriptive contexts to convey a sense of awe or overwhelming size. It can describe physical objects, abstract concepts, feelings, or efforts.

Examples

• Describing physical size or area:
  • The Pacific Ocean is immense.
  • They crossed an immense desert.
• Describing quantity or number:
  • The project required an immense amount of work.
  • Immense crowds gathered in the square.
• Describing degree or intensity (often abstract):
  • She felt immense gratitude for their help.
  • The discovery was of immense importance to science.

Advanced Usage

• "of immense value/significance/importance": A common collocation used to describe something extremely valuable or crucial.
  • His contribution was of immense value to the team.
• "immense pressure/strain": Used to describe a very great amount of stress or demand.
  • The athletes are under immense pressure to perform.

Variants and Related Words

• Immensity (noun): The extremely great size, scale, or extent of something.
  • The immensity of the universe is humbling.
• Immensely (adverb): To an exceedingly great extent; extremely.
  • I enjoyed the concert immensely.

Synonyms

• Enormous: Very large in size, quantity, or extent.
• Vast: Of very great extent or size; immense.
• Huge: Extremely large; enormous.
• Gigantic: Of very great size or extent; huge.
• Colossal: Extremely large.

Antonyms

• Tiny: Very small.
• Minuscule: Extremely small.
• Insignificant: Too small or unimportant to be worth consideration.

Idioms and Common Phrases

• No direct idioms use "immense" as the core word. It is typically used in standard adjective-noun combinations (e.g., immense power, immense pleasure).

Học thuật

Adjective

1. 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

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