Overvast
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈəʊvəbɝst/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Overvast is an adjective meaning (rare) Overly vast.
Meaning
(rare) Overly vast.
Example Sentences
The nation now needs to overcome its happy imbalance of funds, needs to get rid of its overvast surplus of gold and foreign‐currency reserves.
The first two days of the camp were slightly overvast and 1 windy, but the remaining period was true autumn weather, which allowed full advantage to be taken of our open-air holidays.
Too many dollars chasing too few goods is never a healthy situation. Instead of the bracing discipline of dedicated, hard thought applied to difficult research problems, a surfeit of funds has a tendency to cause researchers, even with the best of intentions, to divert their energies into fields that use large and expensive items of equipment, into sometimes overvast and costly experimental undertakings.
Word Forms
- over-vast
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include overwide, overdede, overhuge, oversweeping, overbig, vast.
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