Immense
What it means
Extremely great in size, degree, or importance.
Reach for it when giving strong but natural emphasis to scale, effort, pleasure, or value
Finishing the footbridge brought immense satisfaction to the volunteer crew.
Words to choose between 7
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playful
colossal
Fits when deliberate exaggeration gives the praise force
Careful Colossal is too theatrical for solemn gratitude or careful reporting.
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everyday
enormous
Fits when physical size or quantity is strikingly large
Careful Enormous can feel clumsy beside abstract praise such as gratitude or talent.
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warm
Fits when magnitude and positive impact deserve energetic praise
Careful Tremendous is more enthusiastic and less measured than immense.
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professional
Fits when depth of effect or feeling matters more than amount
Careful Profound should not describe literal physical size.
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professional
substantial
Fits when a restrained statement of meaningful size is safer
Careful Substantial deliberately softens the exceptional scale of immense.
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formal
vast
Fits when wide extent or broad scope is the central image
Careful Vast fits spaces and ranges better than a burst of relief.
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literary
measureless
Fits when poetic language should suggest a scale beyond reckoning
Careful Measureless sounds archaic in routine professional prose.
Opposites 3
- tiny
- slight
- negligible
Common phrases 3
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immense pleasure
It gave her immense pleasure to hear the restored organ again.
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immense potential
The neglected courtyard has immense potential as a public garden.
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immense effort
The rescue required immense effort from crews on both banks.
Definitions and examples are written for this site. How words are chosen Recording: Dvortygirl, American accent, from Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 Updated