vast

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}]
    

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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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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80 Moby Thesaurus words for "vast":
      Atlantean, Brobdingnagian, Cyclopean, Gargantuan, Herculean,
      Homeric, abysmal, ample, amplitudinous, astronomic, astronomical,
      awesome, behemoth, big, boundless, broad, bulky, capacious,
      colossal, commodious, cosmic, deep, elephantine, endless, enormous,
      epic, expansive, extended, extending, extensive, far-flung,
      far-reaching, galactic, giant, giantlike, gigantic, great, heroic,
      huge, humongous, immeasurable, immense, incalculable,
      indeterminate, inexhaustible, infinite, interminable, jumbo,
      king-size, large, limitless, mammoth, massive, massy, measureless,
      mighty, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, never-ending,
      outsize, overgrown, prodigious, profound, roomy, sizable, spacious,
      spreading, stupendous, titanic, towering, tremendous, unbounded,
      unlimited, voluminous, weighty, whopping, wide, widespread