different between immense vs extended

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??m?ns/
• Rhymes: -?ns

Adjective

immense (comparative immenser, superlative immensest)

1. Huge, gigantic, very large.
2. (colloquial) Supremely good.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:gigantic

Related terms

• immensely
• immensity

Translations

Noun

immense (plural 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.

Anagrams

• Eminems

Dutch

Pronunciation

Adjective

immense

1. Inflected form of immens

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin imm?nsus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i(m).m??s/

Adjective

immense (plural immenses)

1. immense, huge

Related terms

• immensément
• immensifier
• immensité

Further reading

• “immense” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Adjective

immense f pl

1. feminine plural of immenso

Latin

Adjective

imm?nse

1. vocative masculine singular of imm?nsus

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?st?nd?d/
• (weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /?k?st?nd?d/
• Rhymes: -?nd?d

Verb

extended

1. simple past tense and past participle of extend

Adjective

extended (comparative more extended, superlative most extended)

1. Longer in length or extension; elongated.
2. Stretched out or pulled out; expanded.
3. Lasting longer; protracted.
4. Having a large scope or range; extensive.
5. (of a typeface) Wider than usual.

Translations

Derived terms

• extended ASCII
• extended basic block
• extended family
• extended Latin
• extended memory
• extended metaphor
• extended order drill
• extended phenotype
• extended play
• extended shinjitai
• extended static checking
• extended vocabulary

Spanish

Verb

extended

1. (Spain) Informal second-person plural (vosotros or vosotras) affirmative imperative form of extender.