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Immense vs Swingeing - What's the difference?

immense | swingeing |

As adjectives the difference between immense and swingeing

is that immense is huge, gigantic, very large while swingeing is (british) large, immense.

As a verb swingeing is

(archaic).

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

    swingeing

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (archaic)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (British) large, immense
  • powerful, scathing (a swingeing verbal attack )
  • * The Economist , June 16th 2012. "Special Report: The melting north", p. 4.
    • Perhaps not since the felling of America's vast forests ... has the world seen such a spectacular environmental change. The consequences for Arctic ecosystems will be swingeing .

    Synonyms

    * whopping