ingens

Meaning

1. (declension-3, one-termination) huge, vast, enormous
2. (declension-3, one-termination) immoderate, exorbitant
3. (declension-3, one-termination) extraordinary, unnatural
4. (declension-3, figuratively, one-termination) mighty, powerful

Concepts

huge

monstrous

prodigious

vast

gigantic

remark

remarkable

swingeing

of immoderate size

vasty

great big

beyond measure

mammonic

cavernous

enormous

gargantuan

Opposite of

dēbilis, languidus, aeger, fractus, tenuis, īnfirmus, inops

Synonyms

immensus

vastus

Translations

immense

τεράστιος

vaste

riesig

vasto

vasta

énorme

kolossal

απέραντος

immens

vast

αφύσικος

αχανής

ungeheuer

Pronounced as (IPA)

[ˈɪŋ.ɡẽːs]

Etymology

Traditionally from in- (“un-, not”) + gens (“kind, family, race”); something that goes beyond what is natural for its kind. Sometimes linked to Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s, from an extended form of the oblique stem *m̥ǵh₂- ; this would make it cognate to magnus, Ancient Greek μέγας (mégas) and Sanskrit महत् (mahat)