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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope;
- Example: "huge government spending"
- Example: "huge country estates"
- Example: "huge popular demand for higher education"
- Example: "a huge wave"
- Example: "the Los Angeles aqueduct winds like an immense snake along the base of the mountains"
- Example: "immense numbers of birds"
- Example: "at vast (or immense) expense"
- Example: "the vast reaches of outer space"
- Example: "the vast accumulation of knowledge...which we call civilization"- W.R.Inge
[syn: huge, immense, vast, Brobdingnagian]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Vast \Vast\, n.
   A waste region; boundless space; immensity. "The watery
   vast." --Pope.
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         Michael bid sound
         The archangel trumpet. Through the vast of heaven
         It sounded.                              --Milton.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Vast \Vast\ (v[.a]st), a. [Compar. Vaster (v[.a]st"[~e]r);
   superl. Vastest.] [L. vastus empty, waste, enormous,
   immense: cf. F. vaste. See Waste, and cf. Devastate.]
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   1. Waste; desert; desolate; lonely. [Obs.]
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            The empty, vast, and wandering air.   --Shak.
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   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.
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            Through the vast and boundless deep.  --Milton.
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   3. Very great in numbers, quantity, or amount; as, a vast
      army; a vast sum of money.
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   4. Very great in force; mighty; as, vast labor.
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   5. Very great in importance; as, a subject of vast concern.
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   Syn: Enormous; huge; immense; mighty.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

vast
    adj 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 [syn: huge, immense, vast,
           Brobdingnagian]