Vast \Vast\ (v[.a]st), a. [Compar. Vaster (v[.a]st"[~e]r);
superl. Vastest.] [L. vastus empty, waste, enormous,
immense: cf. F. vaste. See Waste, and cf. Devastate.]
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1. Waste; desert; desolate; lonely. [Obs.]
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The empty, vast, and wandering air. --Shak.
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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.
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Through the vast and boundless deep. --Milton.
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3. Very great in numbers, quantity, or amount; as, a vast
army; a vast sum of money.
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4. Very great in force; mighty; as, vast labor.
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5. Very great in importance; as, a subject of vast concern.
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Syn: Enormous; huge; immense; mighty.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Vast \Vast\, n.
A waste region; boundless space; immensity. "The watery
vast." --Pope.
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Michael bid sound
The archangel trumpet. Through the vast of heaven
It sounded. --Milton.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
vast
adj : 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, immense, Brobdingnagian]
WordNet (r) 2.0
80 Moby Thesaurus words for "vast":
Atlantean, Brobdingnagian, Cyclopean, Gargantuan, Herculean,
Homeric, abysmal, ample, amplitudinous, astronomic, astronomical,
awesome, behemoth, big, boundless, broad, bulky, capacious,
colossal, commodious, cosmic, deep, elephantine, endless, enormous,
epic, expansive, extended, extending, extensive, far-flung,
far-reaching, galactic, giant, giantlike, gigantic, great, heroic,
huge, humongous, immeasurable, immense, incalculable,
indeterminate, inexhaustible, infinite, interminable, jumbo,
king-size, large, limitless, mammoth, massive, massy, measureless,
mighty, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, never-ending,
outsize, overgrown, prodigious, profound, roomy, sizable, spacious,
spreading, stupendous, titanic, towering, tremendous, unbounded,
unlimited, voluminous, weighty, whopping, wide, widespread
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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