vast´ness

vast´ness
vast «vast, vahst», adjective, noun.
–adj.
1. of great area; of immense extent; extensive: »

Texas and Alaska cover vast territories.

SYNONYM(S): immense, tremendous, colossal.
2. of large dimensions; of very great size; huge; massive: »

vast forms that move fantastically (Edgar Allan Poe).

 SYNONYM(S): immense, tremendous, colossal.
3. very great in amount, quantity, or number: »

A billion dollars is a vast amount of money. It is a building with a vast collection of chambers and galleries.

 SYNONYM(S): immense, tremendous, colossal.
4. Figurative. unusually large or comprehensive in grasp or aims: »

the vast and various affairs of government.

–n.
1. an immense space: »

her return to the unconscious vast (Eden Philpotts).

2. Dialect. a very great number or amount: »

They had heard a vast of words (Robert Louis Stevenson).

╂[< Latin vastus immense, empty]
–vast´ness, noun.

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