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[ adjective ] unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope
Synonyms Examples "huge government spending" "huge country estates" "huge popular demand for higher education" "a huge wave" "the Los Angeles aqueduct winds like an immense snake along the base Related terms |
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[ adjective ] unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope
Examples "huge government spending" "huge country estates" "huge popular demand for higher education" "a huge wave" "immense numbers of birds"; Used in print (Chicago Daily Tribune...)He does n't really need the immense sum_of_money ( probably converted from American gold on the London_Exchange ) he makes them pay . (Richard F. McLaughlin, et al., "A study of the...)Also , interlobular air drifts may be all_but nonexistent in the cow ; probably occur in the horse much_as in the human_being ; and , in contrast are present to a relatively immense degree on a segmental basis in the dog where lobules are absent ( Van_Allen and Lindskog , ' 31 ) . (Marvin Schiller, "The Sheep's in the Meadow,"...)But that year was different , for just as the city , in the form of my street clothes , had intruded upon my mountain nights , so an essential part of the summer gave promise of continuing into the fall : Jessica and I , about to be separated not by a mere footbridge or mess-hall kitchen but by the immense obstacle of residing in cruelly distant boroughs , had agreed to correspond . When in one letter Jessica informed me that her father did not like the idea of her going_out alone on New_Year's_Eve , I knew for a moment an immense relief ; but the letter went_on : she had cried , she had implored , she had been miserable at his refusal , and finally he had relented - and now how happy she was , how expectant ! Related terms |
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