US /vast/ UK /vɑːst/
adj noun Freq #4128

Meanings

  1. 1
    adj

    Extremely large in size, amount, or extent.

    The desert stretched out in a vast empty plain.

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Synonyms
1 adj · extremely large in size,... hugeenormousimmense
Word family
Forms vastervastest

Etymology

From Middle French vaste, from Latin vastus (“void, immense”). Related to waste and German Wüste.

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