meaning of vast
1. Waste; desert; desolate; lonely.
2. Of great extent; very spacious or large; also, huge in bulk; immense; enormous; as, the vast ocean; vast mountains; the vast empire of Russia.
3. Very great in numbers, quantity, or amount; as, a vast army; a vast sum of money.
4. Very great in importance; as, a subject of vast concern.
5. A waste region; boundless space; immensity.
6. unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope; "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 civilization"- W. R. Inge
Related Words
vast | vastation | vastel | vastidity | vastitude | vastity | vastly | vastness | vasty |
