immense

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Immense extent or expanse; immensity. poetic
    — The half of Asia is my prison-house, Myriads of convicts lost in its Immense— I look with terror to my crowning day.
形容词 adj.
  1. Huge, gigantic, very large.
    — Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.
  2. Supremely good. colloquial
  3. Major; to a great degree. colloquial
    — The gallant young Indian dandies at home on furlough—immense dandies these—chained and moustached—driving in tearing cabs […]

词形变化

immenser comparative immensest superlative immenses plural

词汇关系

衍生词
immensely immenseness immensity immensive superimmense

词源

词源 1
From Middle English immens, inmens, from Old French immense, from Latin immensus, from in- (“not”) + mensus (“measured”). Compare incommensurable.
词源 2
From Middle English immens, inmens, from Old French immense, from Latin immensus, from in- (“not”) + mensus (“measured”). Compare incommensurable.
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