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発音

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈmɛns/
• 韻: -ɛns

形容詞

immense (comparative immenser, superlative immensest)

1. Huge, gigantic, very large.
   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 4293071:

     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. (colloquial) Supremely good.
3. (colloquial) Major; to a great degree.
   • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, OCLC 3174108:

     The gallant young Indian dandies at home on furlough—immense dandies these—chained and moustached—driving in tearing cabs […]

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:large

関連する語

• immensely
• immensity

名詞

immense (複数形 immenses)

1. (poetic) Immense extent or expanse; immensity.
   • 1882, James Thomson (B. V.), “Despotism Tempered by Dynamite”:

     The half of Asia is my prison-house,
     Myriads of convicts lost in its Immense—
     I look with terror to my crowning day.

   • 1994, New Times International (issues 1-8, page 9)

     The events that took place in the immenses of the former USSR three years ago remind one about ancient rule of everyday life which is equally applicable both to daily routine and to politics: […]

アナグラム

• Eminems

Latin

形容詞

immēnse

1. vocative masculine singular of immēnsus