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Immense vs Overwhelming - What's the difference?

immense | overwhelming |

As adjectives the difference between immense and overwhelming

is that immense is huge, gigantic, very large while overwhelming is overpowering, staggering, or irresistibly strong.

As a verb overwhelming is

present participle of to overwhelm.

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

    Related terms

    * immensely * immensity

    overwhelming

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Present participle of to overwhelm .

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Overpowering, staggering, or irresistibly strong.
  • *
    • The vote was taken at once, and it was agreed by an overwhelming majority that rats were comrades.
  • Very great or intense.
  • Extreme.

    • Antonyms

    * underwhelming