immane
English
Etymology
Latin immānis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɪˈmeɪn/
Adjective
immane (comparative more immane, superlative most immane)
- (archaic) Very large; huge; vast.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:large
- 1976, Paddy Chayefsky, Network, spoken by Arthur Jensen (Ned Beatty):
- There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multinational dominion of dollars. Petro-dollars, electro-dollars, multi-dollars, reichmarks, rins, rubles, pounds, and shekels.
- (archaic) Monstrous in character; inhuman; atrocious; fierce.
- [1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, OCLC 614803194; The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], volume (please specify the book number), new edition, London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, OCLC 987451361:
- so immane a man
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Related terms
- immanely
Anagrams
- ammine
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /imˈma.ne/
- Rhymes: -ane
- Hyphenation: im‧mà‧ne
Adjective
immane (plural immani)
- huge, immense, untold
- Synonyms: enorme, gigantesco, immenso, smisurato
- dreadful, terrible
- Synonym: terribile
Derived terms
- immanità
Anagrams
- ammine, enimma
Latin
Adjective
immāne
- nominative/accusative neuter singular of immānis
Verb
immanē
- second-person singular present active imperative of immaneō
References
- “immane”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “immane”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- immane in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette