'VAST' definitions:
Definition of 'vast'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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, vast, Brobdingnagian]
Definition of 'Vast'
From: GCIDE
- 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.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. Waste; desert; desolate; lonely. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- The empty, vast, and wandering air. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Through the vast and boundless deep. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Very great in numbers, quantity, or amount; as, a vast army; a vast sum of money. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Very great in force; mighty; as, vast labor. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Very great in importance; as, a subject of vast concern. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Enormous; huge; immense; mighty. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Vast'
From: GCIDE
- Vast \Vast\, n. A waste region; boundless space; immensity. "The watery vast." --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- Michael bid sound The archangel trumpet. Through the vast of heaven It sounded. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'vast'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abysmal,
- ample,
- amplitudinous,
- astronomic,
- astronomical,
- Atlantean,
- awesome,
- behemoth,
- big,
- boundless,
- broad,
- Brobdingnagian,
- bulky,
- capacious,
- colossal,
- commodious,
- cosmic,
- Cyclopean,
- deep,
- elephantine,
- endless,
- enormous,
- epic,
- expansive,
- extended,
- extending,
- extensive,
- far-flung,
- far-reaching,
- galactic,
- Gargantuan,
- giant,
- giantlike,
- gigantic,
- great,
- Herculean,
- heroic,
- Homeric,
- 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
Acronyms for 'vast'
From: V.E.R.A.
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