(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.
Unrivaled
Definition:
(a.) Having no rival; without a competitor; peerless.
Example Sentences:
(1) Brian McKeon, a senior Pentagon policy official, defended Lewis’ efficacy to the Guardian, citing his “bipartisan experience and unrivaled expertise” on Guantánamo matters gained from his prior stint as a congressional aide.
(2) The described assay is unrivaled in simplicity, rapidity, and reproducibility and generates results for a large number of samples within hours.
(3) For procedures of the upper respiratory tract, it is unrivaled by the synthetic anesthetics.
(4) As part of the package, EA gets its branding on match and player performance statistics for the League, and also receives unrivaled access to the teams and players.
(5) The scrutiny over Facebook’s treatment of editorial content has been intensifying for months, reflecting the site’s unrivaled power and influence in distributing news alongside everything else its users share on the site.
(6) Much of the new information builds on what already has been established by MR imaging, namely its unrivaled position in staging musculoskeletal tumors and demonstrating the extent of marrow disease.
(7) For depiction of soft-tissue masses, MR imaging is unrivaled.
(8) International inspectors will enjoy unrivaled access to all nuclear sites and Iran’s program will be monitored 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
(9) Moreover, the primate visual system exhibits a degree of precision in the specification of the nasotemporal division unrivaled among the mammalian species studied to date.
(10) The Habs have lifted the Cup an unrivaled 24 times , but the franchise has failed to recapture the aura and mystique which helped them to win at least one title every seven seasons for 45 years - now it’s been over two decades since their fans gathered throughout Quebec to celebrate the ultimate victory.
(11) Although extracapsular cataract extraction and posterior chamber lens technology is of unrivaled safety and efficacy, the following aspects command considerable attention: chronic postoperative inflammation, inhibition of posterior capsular opacification, facilitation of YAG-laser posterior capsulectomy, prevention of ultraviolet radiation exposure, and sulcus versus capsular-bag fixation of posterior chamber lenses.