vast
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| 1. | of very great area or extent; immense: the vast reaches of outer space. |
| 2. | of very great size or proportions; huge; enormous: vast piles of rubble left in the wake of the war. |
| 3. | very great in number, quantity, amount, etc.: vast sums of money. |
| 4. | very great in degree, intensity, etc.: an artisan of vast skill. |
| 5. | Literary. an immense or boundless expanse or space. |
[Origin: 1565–75; < L vastus empty, immense
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vastly, adverb
vastness, noun
—Synonyms 1. measureless, boundless, gigantic, colossal, stupendous.
—Antonyms 1. small.
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adj. vast·er, vast·est
n. Archaic An immense space. [Latin vāstus.] vast'ly adv., vast'ness n. |
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vast
1575, from M.Fr. vaste, from L. vastus "immense, extensive, huge," also "desolate, unoccupied, empty." The two meanings probably originally attached to two separate words, one with a long -a- one with a short -a-, that merged in early Latin (see waste). Very popular early 18c. as an intensifier.
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| unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope; "huge government spending"; "huge country estates"; "huge popular demand for higher education"; "a huge wave"; "the Los Angeles aqueduct winds like an immense snake along the base of the mountains"; "immense numbers of birds"; "at vast (or immense) expense"; "the vast reaches of outer space"; "the vast accumulation of knowledge...which we call civilization"- W.R.Inge [syn: huge] |
| WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University. |
vast [vaːst] adjective
of very great size or amount
Example: He inherited a vast fortune.
Example: He inherited a vast fortune.
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Vast
Dev"as*tate\ (?; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Devastated; p. pr. & vb. n. Devastating.] [L. devastatus, p. p. of devastare to devastate; de + vastare to lay waste, vastus waste. See Vast.] To lay waste; to ravage; to desolate. Whole countries . . . were devastated. --Macaulay. Syn: To waste; ravage; desolate; destroy; demolish; plunder; pillage.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
Vast
Vast\, a. [Compar. Vaster; superl. Vastest.] [L. vastus empty, waste, enormous, immense: cf. F. vaste. See Waste, and cf. Devastate.]1. Waste; desert; desolate; lonely. [Obs.] The empty, vast, and wandering air. --Shak. 2. Of great extent; very spacious or large; also, huge in bulk; immense; enormous; as, the vast ocean; vast mountains; the vast empire of Russia. Through the vast and boundless deep. --Milton. 3. Very great in numbers, quantity, or amount; as, a vast army; a vast sum of money. 4. Very great in importance; as, a subject of vast concern. Syn: Enormous; huge; immense; mighty.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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