IMMENSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does immense mean? 

• IMMENSE (adjective)
  The adjective IMMENSE has 1 sense:

1. unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope

  Familiarity information: IMMENSE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMMENSE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope

Synonyms:

Brobdingnagian; huge; immense; vast

Context example:

the vast accumulation of knowledge...which we call civilization

Similar:

big; large (above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent)

Derivation:

immenseness; immensity (unusual largeness in size or extent or number)

 Context examples 

I remembered hearing of his case, for it was one which had made an immense sensation throughout the country some time before my own arrest.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Thus, on the subject of sailing he had an immense store.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Such an immense plantation all round it!

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I tried to get him to talk about the past few days, for any clue to his thoughts would be of immense help to me; but he would not rise.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He seemed to find an immense fund of reflection in this circumstance, and sat pondering and inwardly whistling for some time.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

When they run out of nuclear fuel, there is no longer enough energy from radiation to hold the star's outer layers against its immense gravity.

(Elusive Middleweight Black Hole Found at Center of Giant Star Cluster, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

I heard of the division of property, of immense wealth and squalid poverty, of rank, descent, and noble blood.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

At sight of the contents, he uttered one loud sob of such immense relief that I sat petrified.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

"Blue energy is an immense and untapped source of renewable energy," said study co-author Kristian Dubrawski.

(Researchers develop technology to harness energy from mixing of freshwater and seawater, National Science Foundation)

Supermassive black holes, with their immense gravitational pull, are notoriously good at clearing out their immediate surroundings by eating nearby objects.

(Studies Find Echoes of Black Holes Eating Stars, NASA)