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1. immense
adjective. ['ˌɪˈmɛns'] unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Etymology
- immensus (Latin)
Rhymes with Immense
- misrepresents
- nondefense
- commonsense
- suspense
- pretense
- expense
- dispense
- condense
- intense
- incense
- defense
- defence
- commence
- whence
- spens
- spence
- offense
- ferenc
- thence
- tense
- sense
- pense
- pence
- hense
- hence
- fence
- dense
- cents
- bence
How do you pronounce immense?
Pronounce immense as ˌɪˈmɛns.
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Sentences with immense
1. Adjective
Avoid exercises that put immense pressure on your joints during your knee warm up.
2. Verb, base form
If left in the garden, some cultivars can grow to immense sizes.
Quotes about immense
1. The feeling of loving her and being loved by her welled up in him, and he could taste the adrenaline in the back of his throat, and maybe it wasn't over, and maybe he could feel her hand in his again and hear her loud, brash voice contort itself into a whisper to say I-love-you as if it were a secret, and an immense one.
- John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
2. What is love? There is nothing in the world, neither man nor Devil nor any thing, that I hold as suspect as love, for it penetrates the soul more than any other thing. Nothing exists that so fills and binds the heart as love does. Therefore, unless you have those weapons that subdue it, the soul plunges through love into an immense abyss.
- Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
3. When the immense drugged universe explodesIn a cascade of unendurable colourAnd leaves us gasping naked,This is no more than the ectasy of chaos:Hold fast, with both hands, to that royal loveWhich alone, as we know certainly, restoresFragmentation into true being.Ecstasy of Chaos
- Robert Graves, Poems 1965-1968