different between ungainly vs immense

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?n??e?nli/
• Hyphenation: un?gain?ly

Etymology 1

un- (“prefix meaning ‘not’”) +? gainly (“graceful; becoming; proper, suitable; gracious, kindly”) (from gain (“dexterous; convenient, easy, handy; suitable”), from Old Norse gegn (“fit, serviceable; direct, straight; honest; kindly”) + -ly (“suffix forming adjectives from nouns”)). Compare dialectal Norwegian Nynorsk ugjegnleg (“stubborn; troublesome”).

Adjective

ungainly (comparative ungainlier or more ungainly, superlative ungainliest or most ungainly)

1. Clumsy; lacking grace.
   • 1962, Edward [Ronald] Weismiller, chapter XI, in The Serpent Sleeping, New York, N.Y.: Putnam, ?OCLC; republished London; Portland, Or.: Frank Cass Publishers, 1998, ?ISBN, page 169:

     His body, though thin, looked oversized and ungainly, his limbs poorly knit together; he appeared to conquer his tendency to awkwardness by making only the smallest, most deliberate of movements.

2. Difficult to move or to manage; unwieldy.
3. (obsolete) Unsuitable; unprofitable.

Alternative forms

• ungainlie (obsolete)

Derived terms

• ungainliness

Translations

Noun

ungainly (plural ungainlies)

1. (rare) An ungainly person or thing.

Etymology 2

ungain (from un- + gain (“dexterous; convenient, easy, handy; suitable”)) +? -ly.

Adverb

ungainly (comparative ungainlier or more ungainly, superlative ungainliest or most ungainly)

1. (obsolete) In an ungainly or unbecoming manner; improperly; undeservedly, unduly; unsuitably.

Anagrams

• guanylin, unlaying

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