Category:Vast

Vast, a. [compar. Vaster; superl. Vastest.] Etym: [l. vastus empty, Waste, enormous, immense: cf. F. vaste. See waste, and cf. Devastate.]

1. Waste; desert; desolate; lonely. [obs.] The empty, vast, and wandering air. Shak.

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. Through the vast and boundless deep. Milton.

3. Very great in numbers, quantity, or amount; as, a vast army; a Vast sum of money.

4. Very great in importance; as, a subject of vast concern.

Syn. -- enormous; huge; immense; mighty.

Vast Vast, n.

Defn: a waste region; boundless space; immensity. "the watery vast." Pope. Michael bid sound the archangel trumpet. Through the vast of heaven It sounded. Milton.