immense

[ih-mens] / ɪˈmɛns /

ADJECTIVE

extremely large

Synonyms

STRONGEST

boundless colossal endless enormous extensive gigantic great huge immeasurable infinite limitless mammoth massive monstrous monumental prodigious tremendous vast

WEAK

barn door brobdingnagian elephantine eternal giant gross humongous illimitable interminable jumbo measureless mighty stupendous super titanic unbounded

Antonyms

STRONGEST

bounded calculable common ending finite insignificant limited little measurable miniature minute narrow ordinary restricted short small teeny tiny unimportant

Example Sentences

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"This loss is immense, but the path forward continues until liberation."

From Barron's • May 16, 2026

These rules and routines are reminders that art takes work — and immense amounts of energy.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026

Transformers, the technology underlying the LLM, process text by converting every word into a number or token, and expend immense time and power figuring out which words are related.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

The club is performing well below expectations and the pressure, therefore, on Mourinho to reclaim domestic and European dominance will be immense.

From BBC • May 12, 2026

The next morning, we joined up with Goldfarb, who had flown in from New York, and some Soros Foundation advisers and Russian officials to visit Moscow’s immense central prison, Matrosskaya Tishina.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

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