vast Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope
    huge; Brobdingnagian; immense.
    • 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

WordNet

Vast adjective
Etymology
L. vastus empty, waste, enormous, immense: cf. F. vaste. See Waste, and cf. Devastate.
Wordforms
comparative Vaster ; superlative Vastest
Definitions
  1. Waste; desert; desolate; lonely. Obs.
    The empty, vast, and wandering air. Shak.
  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.
    Through the vast and boundless deep. Milton.
  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. Syn. -- Enormous; huge; immense; mighty.
Vast noun
Definitions
  1. A waste region; boundless space; immensity. "The watery vast." Pope.
    Michael bid sound The archangel trumpet. Through the vast of heaven It sounded. Milton.

Webster 1913