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Core quality
Extremely large or great in size, extent, degree, or importance.
Example
The project required an immense quantity of stone.
immense
/ɪˈmens/ · ih-MENSadjective
Extremely large or great in size, extent, degree, or importance.
Use immense to express this relationship precisely: extremely large or great in size, extent, degree, or importance.
What immense Really Means
The word becomes easier to use when its closely related senses are separated and compared.
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Attributive or predicative use
Use this adjective before a suitable noun or after a linking verb such as be or seem.
Example
Researchers faced the immense challenge of cataloguing every fragment.
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Analytical distinction
Choose it when this exact descriptive quality matters; a related word may overlap without conveying the same trait.
Example
The discovery was of immense importance to the field.
Use immense Naturally
Notice how the surrounding noun or clause reveals the exact shade of meaning.
The project required an immense quantity of stone.
Researchers faced the immense challenge of cataloguing every fragment.
The discovery was of immense importance to the field.
Precision Matters
Immense overlaps with several common words, but each carries a different emphasis.
immense
vs.Means extremely large or great in size, extent, degree, or importance.
substantial
Means large or important in size, amount, extent, or significance.
immense
vs.Means extremely large or great in size, extent, degree, or importance.
prodigious
Means remarkably large or impressive.
immense
vs.Means extremely large or great in size, extent, degree, or importance.
copious
Means abundant or plentiful in quantity.
immense
vs.Means extremely large or great in size, extent, degree, or importance.
trivial
Means of little importance or consequence.
Test immense in Context
The weight is extraordinarily large.
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The glacier's ___ weight compresses the rock beneath it.