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Staggering vs Immense - What's the difference?

staggering | immense |

As adjectives the difference between staggering and immense

is that staggering is incredible, overwhelming, amazing while immense is huge, gigantic, very large.

As a verb staggering

is .

As a noun staggering

is the motion of one who staggers.

staggering

English

Verb

(head)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Incredible, overwhelming, amazing.
  • The army suffered a staggering defeat.

    Derived terms

    * staggeringly

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The motion of one who staggers.
  • * 1837 , Memoirs of Mirabeau'' (in ''The Westminster Review , volume 26, page 436)
  • There are to whom the gods, in their bounty, give glory: but far oftener it is given in wrath, as a curse and a poison; disturbing the whole inner health and industry of the man; leading onward through dizzy staggerings and tarantula jiggings
  • That which staggers something or somebody.
  • * (Ebenezer Erskine)
  • But these doubts, and fears, and staggerings , although they may be in the believer, yet they are not in his faith; these things argue the infirmity of his faith, indeed; but under all this, faith is fighting for the victory

    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

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