Immense vs. Enormous: What's the Difference?
Immense and Enormous Definitions
Immense
Very great in size, extent, or amount
An immense cloud.
Enormous
Very great in size, extent, or amount.
Immense
Of great scope or consequence
Immense difficulty.
Enormous
Very great in scope or import
Enormous influence.
Immense
Huge, gigantic, very large.
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Enormous
(Archaic) Very wicked; heinous.
Immense
(colloquial) Supremely good.
Enormous
(obsolete) Deviating from the norm; unusual, extraordinary.
Immense
(poetic) immense extent or expanse; immensity
Enormous
(obsolete) Exceedingly wicked; atrocious or outrageous.
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Immense
Immeasurable; unlimited. In commonest use: Very great; vast; huge.
O Goodness infinite! Goodness immense!
Enormous
Extremely large; greatly exceeding the common size, extent, etc.
Immense
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
Enormous
Exceeding the usual rule, norm, or measure; out of due proportion; inordinate; abnormal.
Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait.
Enormous
Exceedingly wicked; outrageous; atrocious; monstrous; as, an enormous crime.
That detestable profession of a life so enormous.
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Enormous
Extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power or degree;
An enormous boulder
Enormous expenses
Tremendous sweeping plains
A tremendous fact in human experience; that a whole civilization should be dependent on technology
A plane took off with a tremendous noise
