(a.) Immeasurable; unlimited. In commonest use: Very great; vast; huge.
Example Sentences:
(1) Immense amounts of data about cancer-associated chromosome aberrations have been collected during the last 10 years, and the systematic evaluation of these data has disclosed a number of correlations between chromosome change and neoplastic disease.
(2) "It's immensely frustrating and I've got to the point now where I can't do internships," he said.
(3) The referendum vote has immense political implications but no direct legal effect.
(4) Resentment towards the political elite, the widening gap between the immensely rich and the poor, the deteriorating social security system, the collapse in oil prices and what Forbes has called "a stampede" of investors out of Russia – an outflow of $42bn in the first four months of 2012 – means the economy is flagging.
(5) The strain and expense of all these moves has been immense.
(6) These questions are the points of collision of two immensely important spheres of interest in our everyday life.
(7) It's the first in our planet's history where one species - ours - has Earth's future in its hands, and could jeopardise not only itself, but life's immense potential.
(8) I would urge her to follow the example of Elizabeth I, who, on appointing as her chief minister Sir William Cecil, said of him: “This opinion I have of you: that whatever you know my personal opinion to be, you will give me advice that is best for the realm.” Valerie Crews Beckenham, Kent • Another immensely qualified person loses their job for not being optimistic enough about Brexit.
(9) After 14 years of great lovemaking, an erection causes him immense pain and has terminated our sex life.
(10) Despite the "immense challenges" which Yves Mersch cited today , BNP reckons the ECB will have to take unconventional action to fight off weak inflation and to stimulate growth.
(11) It may be just as well that Hugh Grant fervently believes a film succeeds on its qualities, not on publicity about its stars, because he did his tabloid reputation as a heartless, feather-brained Lothario immense harm in the process of delivering damning testimony on phone-hacking to the Leveson inquiry on Monday.
(12) Immense occupancy and porta hepatis proximity of the cysts were triggers for developing jaundice.
(13) An immensely cerebral man, who trained himself to need only six hours of sleep - believing that a woman should have seven and only a fool eight - Mishcon was not a man given to small talk, nor one who would tolerate prattle for the sake of it.
(14) During the last years of her life, Shearer wrote book reviews (not just of dance books) for the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, which were immensely readable though not celebrated for their generosity towards authors.
(15) Global policymakers know well the immense value of forests – so why have development interventions largely failed to harness the positive contributions of forested landscapes?
(16) Thanet suffers from immense shortages of housing and jobs.
(17) The kinds of skills graduates bring can be immensely valuable.
(18) At such levels, public outrage would be immense, but we are prepared to tolerate such risks from the climate because the prospects of catastrophic levels of warming are still regarded by many as remote, the study suggested, and we are poor at calculating risk.
(19) A case is reported in which an immense cranial vault was reduced as part of the rehabilitation of a patient with severe hydrocephalus who had preservation of the intellect.
(20) Meanwhile volumes two and three of The Gulag Archipelago appeared to less public acclaim than volume one, but confirmed the uniqueness and immensity of that vast enterprise.
Immoderate
Definition:
(a.) Not moderate; exceeding just or usual and suitable bounds; excessive; extravagant; unreasonable; as, immoderate demands; immoderate grief; immoderate laughter.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation chief, Duncan Lewis, asked a couple of MPs to tone down the rhetoric , fearing the immoderate language used by some politicians would have a detrimental impact on national security.
(2) Deformation of the respiratory tract due to silicosis has a greater bearing on the development of chronic bronchitis and airway obstruction than immoderate cigarette smoking.
(3) As well as not being able to drink immoderately any more, I can't hack the big, filthy hangovers either.
(4) If someone wants to take an immoderate position on Israel or Palestine, should I accept that the same restriction applies?
(5) Beijing has to realise it is a moderate community and that the only thing likely to stoke up immoderation is the denial of democratic aspirations.
(6) On account of a serious local damage of the skin in both patients the administration of an immoderate dosage must be supposed.
(7) If he knows that one of his patients is drinking immoderately, he should warn him of the outlook.
(8) Many of the known methodological problems and difficulties will arise in the mentioned scientific branches if one stresses immoderately only one component of "idea and experience" by leaving the natural, discipline-related range of variation of the relation "idea and experience".
(9) As for as spontaneous nutrition is concerned the frequency of normal food intake or even of hypocaloric intake, the immoderate proportion of fat intake and the frequency of the few, daily meals.
(10) Immoderate consumption of alcohol was found to be related to three other potentially addictive behaviors (illicit drug use, smoking, and caffeine consumption) in a randomly drawn sample (n = 1253) of American adults.
(11) The politician who is really despised is the kleptocrat who both steals immoderately and does not share the proceeds.
(12) The poison was recycled in The Sun, by Andrew Neil and on BBC's Question Time and would you believe it, there are also some quite rude and immoderate people on Twitter.
(13) However, a sampling of historical sources reveals that not only are there warnings in the writings of both Hippocrates and Aristotle concerning the dangers of excessive intake of cold or iced water, but a series of medical works, from the sixteenth century on, incorporate discussion and illustrative case histories about the detrimental effect of immoderate usage of cold water, ice and snow, frequently in the context of disordered eating.
(14) Immoderate eating habits (e.g., overeating) may aggravate or contribute to the development of degenerative diseases and should be discouraged.
(15) The metachromasia was readily lost after immoderate washing in aqueous solutions or routine dehydration in ethanol, with consequent diminished fiber type distinction.
(16) However, a belief is growing among ordinary soldiers, not just that the generals' perks are immoderate but that in some cases their families are using their connections to make huge corrupt fortunes outside the military.
(17) During the reduction of the fracture, the immoderate use of a image intensifior seams to be the major risk.
(18) This data indicates that the eicosanoid metabolism is involved in the modulation of the potent vasoconstrictor effect of ET-1 in HSV and that PGI2-releaser, such as defibrotide, may have therapeutical value against immoderate changes of venous tone.
(19) Particular Tory policies – on human rights, say, or on welfare – might have been immoderate, but Mr Cameron was always able to wrap them up, often pretty convincingly, in the language of pragmatic common sense.
(20) Significant prevention effects were found for cigarette smoking, marijuana use, and immoderate alcohol use.