What does vast mean in English? Meaning of vast definition and abbreviation with examples.
Meaning of "vast": unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope
Adjective
Meaning: unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scopeExample: 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 civilizationSynonyms: brobdingnagian
huge
immense
vastSimilar: big
largePronunciation in US: /væst/
Pronunciation in UK: väst, IPA(key)
Adjective: 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. 2012 March-April, Anna Lena Phillips, “Sneaky Silk Moths”, American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 172: Last spring, the periodical cicadas emerged across eastern North America. Their vast numbers and short above-ground life spans inspired awe and irritation in humans—and made for good meals for birds and small mammals.2012 March-April, Anna Lena Phillips, “Sneaky Silk Moths”, American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 172: Last spring, the periodical cicadas emerged across eastern North America. Their vast numbers and short above-ground life spans inspired awe and irritation in humans—and made for good meals for birds and small mammals.(obsolete) Waste; desert; desolate; lonely. William Shakespeare, the Life and Death of Richard the Third Act I, scene IV: the empty, vast, and wandering airWilliam Shakespeare, the Life and Death of Richard the Third Act I, scene IV: the empty, vast, and wandering airSynonyms:
far-flung, colossal, far-reaching, huge, tremendous, broad, immense, boundless, spacious, extensive, ample, big, limitless, unlimited, great, infinite, endless, enormous, monumental, mammoth, massive, gigantic, all-inclusive, astronomical, capacious, comprehensive, detailed, eternal, forever, giant, immeasurable, monstrous, never-ending, prodigious, prolonged, sweeping, titanic, voluminous, widespread, illimitable, measureless, unbounded, expanded, spread-out, stretched-out,
Antonyms:
teeny, tiny, insignificant, trivial, unimportant, miniature, restricted, calculable, finite, bounded, small, narrow, little, minute, limited, short, ending,
