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vast
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- pronunciation:
- vaest
- features:
- Word Explorer
part of speech: |
adjective |
inflections: |
vaster, vastest |
definition 1: |
If something is vast, it is very large and wide. It covers a very large area.
The Sahara is a vast desert in the northern part of Africa.- synonyms:
- great, tremendous
- antonyms:
- tiny
- similar words:
- enormous, huge, large, massive, wide
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definition 2: |
A vast number of things is a very large number of them. If a vast number of people watched a certain movie, then many, many people watched it, maybe millions.
There are a vast number of stars in our galaxy.- synonyms:
- great, large, tremendous
- similar words:
- enormous, huge
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related words: |
big, broad, deep, mammoth |
derivations: |
vastly (adv.), vastness (n.) |
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