immense

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Estimated CEFR level: B1 — Intermediate

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Definition

adjective unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; - W.R.Inge

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

G. (With an immense calm.) — The Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume Edition, Rudyard Kipling
These immense treasures dazzled Dakianos. — Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers, Unknown
The cost in human life was immense. — A School History of the United States, John Bach McMaster

huge, vast, Brobdingnagian

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