immersive
/ɪˈmɜːɹ.sɪv/
immersive adjective: tending to immerse.
Adjective
immersive (comparative more immersive, superlative most immersive)
- Tending to immerse.
- Giving the impression of immersion.
- An immersive system usually allows the user to move around physically so it is important that the real world allows sufficient space for this to happen safely.1999, Janet M. Noyes, Malcolm James Cook, Interface Technology: The Leading Edge, Research Studies PressLtd, →ISBN, page 125
- However, I maintain that many immersive theatre performances still tend to assign audiences to a scheme of production that is neoliberal in character and that affects the values and meanings that are attributable to that scheme of production.2016, Adam Alston, Beyond Immersive Theatre: Aesthetics, Politics and Productive Participation, Springer, →ISBN, page 21
- Using or relating to the immersion technique of language teaching.
immersive meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Kannada and Odia
immersive in Tamil
- மூழ்கவல்ல
immersive in Marathi
- निमज्जनशील
immersive in Kannada
- ಇಮ್ಮರ್ಸಿವ್
immersive in Odia
- ନିମଜ୍ଜନକାରୀ, ନିମଜ୍ଜନଶୀଳ
More languagesFewer languages
- immersive in Nepali
- निमज्जनशील
Examples of immersive in a sentence
- "On top of this, many leading competitor attractions are hands-on, experimental, immersive, and tell a story.
- One factor is the increasingly immersive power of ideological narratives and virtual realities.
- Maybe it required an immersive trance, like a psychedelic vision quest.
Forms of immersive
| comparative | more immersive |
|---|---|
| superlative | most immersive |
Origin of immersive
From immerse + -ive.
Words formed from immersive
Words that rhyme with immersive
- recursive
- cursive
- adversive
- animadversive
- aversive
- conversive
- discursive
- dispersive
- excursive
- introversive
- semicursive
- subversive
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- abstersive
- antidiscursive
- antisubversive
- aspersive
- co-recursive
- compersive
- contraversive
- corecursive
- counterdiscursive
- countersubversive
- cyberdiscursive
- detersive
- electrodispersive
- eversive
- extroversive
- immunosubversive
- incursive
- interconversive
- interdiscursive
- inversive
- ipsiversive
- left-recursive
- macrodiscursive
- metadiscursive
- microdiscursive
- monodispersive
- nonaversive
- noncursive
- nondiscursive
- nondispersive
- nonimmersive
- nonrecursive
- nonsubversive
- overdispersive
- perversive
- photoaversive
- polydispersive
- precursive
- primitive recursive
- proaversive
- procursive
- pursive
- reversive
- Roman cursive
- semiodiscoursive
- submersive
- subrecursive
- superrecursive
Questions about immersive
- What does immersive mean?
- Immersive means tending to immerse.
- What is immersive in Tamil?
- Immersive in Tamil is மூழ்கவல்ல. See Immersive meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is immersive?
- Immersive is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce immersive?
- Immersive is pronounced /ɪˈmɜːɹ.sɪv/.
Words near immersive in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: immersive (page history and authors); immersive (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); immersive (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); immersive (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); immersive (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); immersive (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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