Vast
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /vɑːst/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Vast is an adjective meaning Very large or wide (literally or figuratively).
Meaning
Very large or wide (literally or figuratively).
More Meanings
- Very great in size, amount, degree, intensity, or especially extent.
- (poetic) A vast space.
- (obsolete) Waste; desert; desolate; lonely.
Example Sentences
The Sahara desert is vast.
the empty, vast, and wandering air
There is a vast difference between them.
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.
Word Forms
- vaster
- vastest
- vasts
Synonyms for vast
Depending on context, synonyms include immense, large, big.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include large, immense, big, great, colossal, large-scale.
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