vasty

[ vas-tee, vah-stee ]

/ ˈvæs ti, ˈvɑ sti /

adjective, vast·i·er, vast·i·est.

vast; immense.

Nearby words

Origin of vasty

First recorded in 1590–1600; vast + -y¹

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Examples from the Web for vasty

You've invented them, haven't you, called them out of the vasty deep sort of thing and brought them up in the way they should go.
If Winter Comes|A.S.M. Hutchinson
But these cries came down the long avenues of the centuries; this gaiety was distant in the vasty halls of the long-dead years.
The Spell of Egypt|Robert Hichens
At twelve the following night we were neither "far out on the vasty deep" nor on the "Princess Eulalie."
Kent Knowles: Quahaug|Joseph C. Lincoln
I say, mother,” said Horace, “suppose we call up the spirits from the vasty deep and ask them to get tea ready.
Reginald Cruden|Talbot Baines Reed

To-morrow night at twelve o'clock we shall be far out on the vasty deep.
Kent Knowles: Quahaug|Joseph C. Lincoln

British Dictionary definitions for vasty

vasty

/ (ˈvɑːstɪ) /

adjective vastier or vastiest

an archaic or poetic word for vast

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