immane

[ ih-meyn ]

adjective

, Archaic.

1. vast in size; enormous.
2. inhumanly cruel.

Other Words From

• im·manely adverb
• im·maneness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of immane¹

1595–1605; < Latin immānis brutal, frightful, enormous, equivalent to im- im- ² + -mānis, apparently akin to mānus good; manes

Example Sentences

Seniors Immane Mondane and Jourdyhn Williams created the whiteboard protest, which includes pictures of students holding up anti-Pence messages.

From Washington Times

He screamed and bellowed to get his point across: "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. It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today."

From Los Angeles Times

"At specus et Caci detecta apparuit ingens Regia, et umbros� penitus patuere cavern�; Non secus, ac si qu� penitus vi terra dehiscens Infernas reseret sedes, et regna recludat Pallida, d�s invisa; superque immane barathrum Cernatur, trepidentque immisso lumine manes." �neid, lib. viii.

From Project Gutenberg

Thus Statius: Ditantur flammæ: non unquam opulentioan ille ante cinis: crepitant gemmæ: atque immane litescit argentum, et pietis exsudat vestibus aurum.

From Project Gutenberg

Immane, i-mān′, adj. huge: cruel, savage.—adv.

From Project Gutenberg