vast

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adjective,vast·er, vast·est.
  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.

  1. very great in number, quantity, amount, etc.: vast sums of money.

  2. very great in degree, intensity, etc.: an artisan of vast skill.

noun
  1. Literary. an immense or boundless expanse or space.

Origin of vast

1
First recorded in 1565–75, from Latin vastus “empty, immense”

Other words for vast

Opposites for vast

Other words from vast

  • vast·ly, adverb
  • vast·ness, noun
  • su·per·vast, adjective

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British Dictionary definitions for vast

vast

/ (vɑːst) /


adjective
  1. unusually large in size, extent, degree, or number; immense

  2. (prenominal) (intensifier): in vast haste

noun
  1. the vast mainly poetic immense or boundless space

  2. British dialect a very great amount or number

Origin of vast

1
C16: from Latin vastus deserted

Derived forms of vast

  • vastity, noun
  • vastly, adverb
  • vastness, noun

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