vast Definition
vast (vast, väst)
noun
Archaic a vast space
vast Related Forms
vast′ly adverb
vast′·ness noun
vast Synonyms
vast
modif.
Large
Extensive
broad, far-flung, wide, spacious, expansive, spread-out, ample, far-reaching, widespread, comprehensive, detailed, all-inclusive, astronomical, prolonged, stretched out, expanded. Infinite
boundless, limitless, interminable; see endless 1, eternal 2.
vast Usage Examples
Preposition: as
universe: Imagine, too, that the divine self you are now is as vast as the universe.
Used with adjective complement
- seem: There are bigger states in the country and yet Nevada seems unfathomably vast partly because there is so little here except semi-desert.
- mean: It is set in rolling meadows, beside a couple of huge, I mean vast, houses.
- feel: This allows a much higher density of traps, much more action, and still feels vast in practice.
Modifies a noun
- majority: The vast majority of people getting social services from the council have a right to direct payments.
- array: Our selection spans a vast array of what is on offer in the marketplace.
- amount: There are vast amounts of slot machines for you to try you luck.
- quantity: These low articles are exported in vast quantities in casks to all parts of the world.
- expanse: On the foreground of the building a stairway for flight passengers is set up facing the vast expanse around.
Modifying Another Word
- potentially: I intend to start this potentially vast project with a case-study of one city: Lucerne in Switzerland.
- so: There is no single " human nature " because the topic is so vast, and so dynamic.
- similarly: She lies in a similarly vast stone bed, with her second husband beside her.
- truly: Many of the levels are truly vast playgrounds, with numerous opportunities to use your varied gadgets in your hunt for monkey.
- too: The features however, are too vast to list on this page.
- equally: Such a site, and the vast numbers of those who vanished mainly between July and November 1916, demanded an equally vast solution.
Preposition: in
scope: Knowledge, on the other hand, is vast in scope, subjective in relevance, increasing daily and becoming obsolete almost as quickly.
Browse dictionary entries near vast
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