vast
adjective
1.
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
Origin
From Middle French vaste, from Latin vastus (“void, immense”). Related to waste and German Wüste.
Related words
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