Vast
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English
Adjective
Vast (comparative Vaster or more Vast, superlative Vastest or most Vast)
- Very large or wide (literally or figuratively).
- The Sahara desert is vast.
- There is a vast difference between them.
- Very great in size, amount, degree, intensity, or especially extent.
Noun
Vast (plural Vasts)- (poetic) A vast space.
- 1608: they have seemed to be together, though absent, shook hands, as over a vast, and embraced, as it were, from the ends of opposed winds. — William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, I.i
Derived terms
Adjectives for Vast
populous; current; fathomless; boundless; unimagined. adverbs enormously; mysteriously; stupendously; impossibly; overwhelmingly; strangely; colossally; prodigiously; astonishingly; marvellously; extraordinarily; miraculously.
Thesaurus
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
Etymology
From Latin vastus (“void, immense”).
Pronunciation
Translations
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Statistics
- Most common English words before 1923: Rome · twelve · opposite · #972: vast · isn't · board · associated
Anagrams
Dutch
Adjective
Vast (comparative Vaster, superlative meest Vast or vastst)
- firm, fast, tight, fixed
- Een knoop is een manier om een lijn (touw) min of meer blijvend ergens aan vast te maken, of om twee touwen aan elkaar vast te maken. — A knot is a manner of fastening more or less permanently a line of rope to something, or of fastening a pair of ropes to each other.
- (chemistry) in the solid state
- (botany) perennial
- (of a telephone) using a landline
Declension
Derived terms
</div>Verb
Vast
- first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of vasten.
- imperative of vasten.
Pronunciation
- IPA: /vɑst/
Etymology
Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *fastuz, from Proto-Indo-European *pasto- (“solid”).
Cognate via Germanic with English fast, German fest, Icelandic (and Faroese) fastur, Norwegian fast, and Swedish fast. Cognate via Proto-Indo-European with Armenian հաստ (hast, “thick”) and Sanskrit पस्त्य (pastyá).
Romani
Noun
vast m. (plural vast)
