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[ vast, vahst ] / væst, vɑst / SEE SYNONYMS FOR vast ON THESAURUS.COM
adjective, vast·er, vast·est.of very great area or extent; immense: the vast reaches of outer space. of very great size or proportions; huge; enormous: vast piles of rubble left in the wake of the war. very great in number, quantity, amount, etc.: vast sums of money. very great in degree, intensity, etc.: an artisan of vast skill. nounLiterary. an immense or boundless expanse or space. Origin of vastFirst recorded in 1565–75, vast is from the Latin word vastus “empty, immense” SYNONYMS FOR vast1 measureless, boundless, gigantic, colossal, stupendous. SEE SYNONYMS FOR vast ON THESAURUS.COM ANTONYMS FOR vastSEE ANTONYMS FOR vast ON THESAURUS.COM OTHER WORDS FROM vastvast·ly, adverbvast·ness, nounsu·per·vast, adjectivesu·per·vast·ness, nounWords nearby vastvassal, vassalage, vassalic, vassalize, Vassar, vast, Västerås, Vasthi, vastitude, vastity, vastly Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for vastThough this too is debatable given that 25,000 to 40,000 people a year die of influenza—the vast majority of them unvaccinated. When You Get the Flu This Winter, You Can Blame Anti-Vaxxers|Kent Sepkowitz|January 1, 2015|DAILY BEAST With its vast web of resources and services, including its support groups, the Center has often helped save these people lives. The LGBT Center That Changed Our Lives|Justin Jones|December 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST It would be difficult to find an issue with less resonance with the vast majority of voters than climate change. Time to Bring Back the Truman Democrats|Joel Kotkin|December 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST What qualifies as vast enough, as comprehensive enough, as representative enough to faithfully render a city and its people? A History of Paris in 150 Photographs|Sarah Moroz|December 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
They are for corporations like Hobby Lobby, and vast hospital networks, and, yes, adoption agencies. Do LGBTs Owe Christians an Olive Branch? Try The Other Way Around|Jay Michaelson|December 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST The capital of the kingdom of Lilliput appeared to be partially surrounded by a vast and melancholy campagna of turnips. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6|E. Rameur In the little contrivances of children lie the germs of vast mechanical and artistic enterprises. The Playwork Book|Ann Macbeth The fence begins to melt as if in a haze and the logic of clearing this vast expanse of earth and rock escapes him. The Land of Look Behind|Paul Cameron Brown A virtual prisoner, I marched between them, through the vast crowd that made way grudgingly to let us pass. Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1930|Various Nothing was too vast or too complicated to be undertaken, no detail was too trivial to be studied. England and Germany|Emile Joseph Dillon
British Dictionary definitions for vast
adjectiveunusually large in size, extent, degree, or number; immense (prenominal) (intensifier)in vast haste nounthe vast mainly poetic immense or boundless space British dialect a very great amount or number Derived forms of vastvastity, nounvastly, adverbvastness, nounWord Origin for vastC16: from Latin vastus deserted Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to vastfar-flung, colossal, far-reaching, huge, tremendous, broad, immense, boundless, spacious, extensive, ample, big, limitless, unlimited, great, infinite, endless, enormous, monumental, mammoth |