noun
definition
Immense extent or expanse; immensity
adjective
definition
Huge, gigantic, very large.
definition
Supremely good.
Examples of immense in a Sentence
The city has immense coal piers.
There was immense suffering.
He did not look so immense on this mighty stage.
Silence sits immense upon my soul.
The immense house was brilliant with lights shining through its lofty windows.
Every order executed is always one of an immense number unexecuted.
The Old Testament was an immense religious asset to the early church.
Did you feel immense satisfaction?
Their life seems an immense disparity between effort and opportunity.
In Ethiopia the demand for anesthetists is still immense.
We take immense pride knowing where we came from.
The problems were immense in terms of wasted opportunities for economic growth and social justice.
Two days later, on the fifteenth of July, an immense number of carriages were standing outside the Sloboda Palace.
This has immense advantages over the ordinary type of fireplace.
Cynthia turned on the balls of her feet, still holding the immense knife, waist-high, pointed directly at him.
Tacitus, besides being a man of immense wealth (which he bequeathed to the state), Dill, Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius, Bk.
An immense crowd of bareheaded officers, soldiers, and militiamen surrounded the icon.
Due to the immense popularity, all available spaces for September have been taken.
That same evening a house serf who had come from Borovsk said he had seen an immense army entering the town.
First came the Imperial Cornet Band of Oz, dressed in emerald velvet uniforms with slashes of pea-green satin and buttons of immense cut emeralds.
Possessing an immense range of knowledge, he has filled up lacunae in nearly every part of physics, by experiment, by calculation, and by clear accurate thought.
The souls of his forefathers inhabited the obelisk, making it hum with immense power.
But nothing is more certain than that his thought is a strong solvent of the intuitionalist way of thinking; and he has had an immense influence in many directions.
There was nothing terrible in the one small, distant fire in the immense city.
He took immense pains with his work, and to some degree anticipated the modern scientific method of writing history.
The rate and scale of change has simply proved too immense for much of Surrey's biodiversity to adapt and respond to.
The youngest child, a boy of about seven, who wore an overcoat and an immense cap evidently not his own, was crying in his old nurse's arms.
I don't understand how a man of his immense intellect can fail to see what is as clear as day, and can go so far astray.
An immense and brilliant suite surrounded him.
They looked to the immense private wealth of the temple, rather than raise money for civil projects by taxation.
Immense flocks of gulls were probably attracted to it then as now by its insect life, and its lagoons and streams teemed with aquatic birds.
The enemy has entered the borders of Russia with immense forces.
He was entrusted with the defence of Transylvania at the end of 1848, and in 1849, as the general of the Szeklers, he performed miracles with his little army, notably at the bridge of Piski (February 9), where, after fighting all day, he drove back an immense force of pursuers.
The amnesty which he granted was the beginning of the immense if short-lived popularity which he was to enjoy.
The Suffolk beds have been worked since 1846; and immense quantities of coprolite have also been obtained from Essex, Norfolk and Cambridgeshire.
Thus it consists of the immense plains and flat lands which extend between the plateau formation and the Arctic Ocean, including the series of parallel chains and hilly spurs which skirt the former region on the N.W.
From the use of macro focusing, the worlds seem immense with potential; Gottelier is telling stories using scraps of familiarity.
The timid viscacha (Lagostomus trichodactylus), living in colonies, often with the burrowing owl, and digging deep under ground like the American prairie dog, was almost the only quadruped to be seen upon these immense open plains.
The so-called eelworms (Nematodes) may do immense damage on roots and in the grains of cereals, and every one knows how predatory slugs and snails are.
As a complete fusion between dramatic and musical movement, its very crudities point to its immense advance towards the solution of the problem, propounded chaotically at the beginning of the i 7th century by Monteverde, and solved in a simple form by Gluck.
The great Arthropod class, the Crustacea, presents to the zoologist at the present day an immense range of forms,.
Outside the scientific world an immense mass of observation and experiment had grown up in relation to this subject.
The work of the Convention was immense in all branches of public affairs.
Over this immense area the trees are for the most part the same as we are familiar with in Europe.
The Tunguses (nearly 70,000) occupy as their hunting-grounds an immense region on the high plateau and its slopes to the Amur, but their limits are yearly becoming more and more circumscribed both by Russian gold-diggers and by Yakut settlers.
South Siberia has a very fertile soil and yields heavy crops, but immense tracts of the country are utterly unfit for tillage.
The military posts were drawn up in echelon along the frontier of the desert, especially along the southern slopes of the Aures, as far as Ad Majores (Besseriani), and on the Tripolitan frontier as far as Cydamus (Ghadames), forming an immense arc extending from Cyrenaica to Mauretania.
He rendered an immense service to his country by maintaining that the cause of France, though desperate to all appearance, was not yet lost if the contending factions could lay aside their differences in the face of the common enemy.
The process of magnetization consists in turning round the molecules by the application of magnetic force, so that their north poles may all point more or less approximately in the direction of the force; thus the body as a whole becomes a magnet which is merely the resultant of an immense number of molecular magnets.
During his rule harbour works were built at Mandvi, an immense reservoir for rain water in the Chadwa hills was constructed, and many schools and colleges were endowed.