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immensive

immensive adjective: synonym of immense.

Adjective

immensive (comparative more immensive, superlative most immensive)

  1. (nonstandard, obsolete) Synonym of immense.
    • Give vvay, give vvay, novv, novv my Charles ſhines here, / A Publike Light (in this immenſive Sphere.)1648, Robert Herrick, “To the King”, in Hesperides: Or, The Works both Humane & Divine […], London: […] John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold by Tho[mas] Hunt, […], →OCLC, page 278
    • Sir Benegal also quoted General of the Army Douglas MacArthur’s statements that, in modern war, with its immensive destructiveness, there could be no victory for either side, and that it was defeatism to think that war was inevitable.1951 May 19, Thomas J. Hamilton, “U.N. Asks All Bar Arms to Red China […]”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    immense

Synonyms of immensive

Forms of immensive

comparativemore immensive
superlativemost immensive

Origin of immensive

From Middle French immensif, from immense + -if. By surface analysis, immense + -ive.

Words formed from immensive

Questions about immensive

What does immensive mean?
Immensive means synonym of immense.
What part of speech is immensive?
Immensive is an adjective.

Words near immensive in the dictionary

  1. immenses
  2. immensest
  3. immensible
  4. immensities
  5. immensity
  6. immensive
  7. immensively
  8. immensurability
  9. immensurable
  10. immensurableness
  11. immensurate

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