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immense English

Meaning immense meaning

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immense

If something is immense, then it is very large or big.

immense

(= huge, vast) unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope 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 of the mountains immense numbers of birds at vast (or immense) expense the vast reaches of outer space the vast accumulation of knowledge...which we call civilization — W.R.Inge

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Simple sentences

Technology has given us immense power.
An immense monument was erected in honor of the eminent philosopher.
That play was an immense success.
A black hole is an area of such immense gravity that nothing-not even light-can escape from it.
Freedom has immense value.
Brazil is very rich; its richness is immense; coffee is one of its greatest riches.
And below, the princess saw an immense city shining with millions of lights. The three travellers descended towards it, unseen by anyone.
It is, no doubt, an immense advantage to have done nothing, but one should not abuse it.

Movie subtitles

In spite of the immense hardships involved, - the regulararmy was formed under enemy fire.
Must be immense, as in fairy tales. There will be guards in uniform, with flags all the way.
You have immense power.
All my friends have told me that it was insane for a single person to oppose the immense machinery of the law the glory of the army and the power of the state.
France is once again today the land of reason and benevolence because one of her sons, through an immense work and a great action gave rise to a new order of things based on justice and the rights common to all men.
You've been an immense help often.
Before, the world looked immense.
Ever since I lost my immense fortune.
My happiness is immense.
The sea is everything -- an immense reservoir of nature, where I roam at will.
More. I have immense fire power.
I had to go off the air just now because the crowd was so immense, they broke my microphone cable.
Not at all. The apartment is immense.
In the south, where I come from the autumnal storms are announced by an immense crimson cloud which sits on the horizon for seven nights.
He certainly doesn't look as if he has immense power, does he?
But despite your immense intellect, it's amazing how silly you can be.
Immense.
Say what you wish. I only feel. an immense pity for you.
I wish to be worthy of this immense honor.
The sea is everything, an immense reservoir of nature where I roam at will.
In front of me a golden-feathered peacock-eagle, presumably the symbol of the royal house, spread its immense wings, when unexpectedly, through silk-covered folding-doors. His Majesty appeared and looked at me.
Sure, I'll say, I'll say tomorrow! Tomorrow we will all be overwhelmed by an immense tragedy.
It'd give Johnson an immense psychological advantage to know that Paddy's lying flat on his back.
The surveyors' route lay through immense natural barriers, the Rocky Mountains and the equally discouraging High Sierras.
Now immense herds of cattle were driven hundreds of miles to meet the lines bound for markets in the East.
We must do an immense amount of development in these countries.
It requires immense preparation, formality, etiquette. - I see it does.
I only feel. an immense pity for you.
These immense forces of nature, tamed and channeled, will give man the energy needed to run his industries and factories.
An immense good pervades me without me calling upon it.
The only way you can generate the proper attitude of awe and obedience. is by immense and disproportionate power.
I felt an immense pity for her, an irresistible need to see her, to embrace her.
It has immense power.
Now, immense herds of cattle were driven hundreds of miles to meet the lines bound for markets in the East.
In Vienna I studied with Professor Freud. a doctor of immense talent.
I know, comrade Krouchtchev, that this was an optical illusion, and, on the contrary, immense and irremediable is the abyss between us who fly the cosmos, and the billions of miserables attached to the earth like desperate insects.

News and current affairs

The notion that Liu might be capable of subverting the immense power of the Communist Party of China is patently absurd.
The mystique of immense wealth, noble birth, and great exclusivity is further sustained by the global mass media that promote these rituals.
In Cuba, Fidel Castro's eventual passing from the scene represents an immense challenge.
PALO ALTO - The United States and Europe are two giant free-trade areas, each wealthy but with serious short-run problems and immense long-run challenges.
With the EU's internal borders reduced to purely administrative boundaries, this task has passed to institutions that wield immense preemptive authority over member states.
Even simple requests, like that of schoolgirls to wear headscarves in class, are suddenly freighted with immense political significance and treated as issues that must be resolved at the highest level of government.
From Spain to China to the United States to Italy, these governments - regions, states, provinces, cities, and towns - face immense fiscal challenges.
How can farmers treat them with respect when consumers want cheaper meat and supermarkets are using their immense bargaining power to force producers to use every possible means to cut costs?
But, as I was told during my visit, the central government's reluctance to move more quickly reflects its wariness of imposing immense fiscal pressures on local authorities.
Rebels know that if they succeed, they will gain immense personal wealth, be able to reward those who backed their coup, and have enough arms to keep themselves in power, no matter how badly they rule.
With modest up-front financing, impoverished and traditional rural communities that had not considered educating girls suddenly see the immense value to the community of educating both boys and girls.
Imagine the immense potential we would have to solve some of the world's toughest challenges if business leaders adopted this strategy.
This represents a tragedy that is as avoidable as it is immense.
Yet the potential is immense.
Radical groups receive immense support from the large share of the population that opposes women's rights.
The gaps in these countries' labor markets - from software specialists to physicians to home health aides - will be immense.
Predicting the onset of Alzheimer's, let alone preventing or curing it, remains an immense challenge.
Zimbabwe's military and political elite has appropriated the diamond field's immense wealth for itself, with no benefits for the millions of desperately poor Zimbabweans who need the kind of services that the country has the resources to provide.
Similarly, national leaders in the developing world - where some three billion people do not have access to affordable energy - are under immense pressure to deliver standard-of-living improvements.
Cyber attacks may also interfere with financial markets and cause immense economic loss by closing down commercial Web sites.
A more immediate concern is the immense number of people who will need to be resettled when reservoirs inundate the region's densely populated valleys.
The commercial stakes are growing as it becomes possible to test for predisposition to common diseases such as breast cancer and heart disease where the potential market is immense.

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