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Spell Bee Word: immense


Basic Details

Word: Immense

Part of Speech: Adjective

Meaning: Extremely large or great in size or amount.

Synonyms: huge, enormous, vast, massive

Antonyms: tiny, small, minute

How to Spell Immense

Syllables: im - mense

Tricky part: It has a double m and ends in se, not ce. Immence and imense are the usual mistakes.

Watch out for: imense, immence, immens

Memory tip: Im + mense: the prefix brings one m and mense brings the other. The end, ense, is the same as in dense.

Usage Examples

Example 1: The blue whale is an immense animal.

Example 2: Climbing the Himalayas takes immense courage.

Example 3: Our class felt immense pride when the school won the quiz.

Fun Fact

Immense comes from the Latin immensus, meaning not measured: something so big it seemed impossible to measure.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Connection

Choose the antonym of the word: immense

a) tiny
b) vast
c) enormous
d) massive

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a) tiny. Tiny means very small, the opposite of immense.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) condense
b) immence
c) suspense
d) intense

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b) immence. Immense finishes with se, the same as intense and suspense.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

smeemni

a) nemesis
b) eminent
c) immerse
d) immense

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d) immense. Immerse needs an r, eminent a t and nemesis a second s; only immense uses exactly these seven letters.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of these is immense?

a) the Pacific Ocean
b) a grain of rice
c) a pencil eraser
d) a ladybird

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a) the Pacific Ocean

2. Which word could replace immense in "She has immense patience" without changing the meaning?

a) little
b) quick
c) great
d) false

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c) great

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