Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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}.
Source : 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}]