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Immense vs Astronomical - What's the difference?

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Immense is a related term of astronomical.


As adjectives the difference between immense and astronomical

is that immense is huge, gigantic, very large while astronomical is (not comparable) of or relating to astronomy.

immense

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Huge, gigantic, very large.
  • * , chapter=5
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.}}
  • Supremely good.
  • Synonyms

    * See also

    astronomical

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (not comparable) Of or relating to astronomy.
  • * 1839 , (Edgar Allan Poe), ,
  • Finally, all men saw that astronomical knowledge lied not, and they awaited the comet.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
  • , author= , title=Pixels or Perish , volume=100, issue=2, page=106 , magazine= citation , passage=Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.}}
  • (comparable) Very large; of vast measure.
  • * 1959 , (Andre Norton), ,
  • At the moment he wondered why anyone would want to visit Khatka, let alone pay some astronomical sum for the privilege.

    Synonyms

    * (relating to astronomy) astronomic

    Derived terms

    * astronomically * astronomical unit