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vast 音标拼音: [v'æst] a. 巨大的,庞大的;大量的,巨额的 巨大的,庞大的;大量的,巨额的 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 [ synonym: { huge}, { immense}, { vast}, { Brobdingnagian}] Vast \ Vast\, n. A waste region; boundless space; immensity. " The watery vast." -- Pope. [ 1913 Webster] Michael bid sound The archangel trumpet. Through the vast of heaven It sounded. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster]
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}.] [ 1913 Webster] 1. Waste; desert; desolate; lonely. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] The empty, vast, and wandering air. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] Through the vast and boundless deep. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Very great in numbers, quantity, or amount; as, a vast army; a vast sum of money. [ 1913 Webster] 4. Very great in force; mighty; as, vast labor. [ 1913 Webster] 5. Very great in importance; as, a subject of vast concern. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: Enormous; huge; immense; mighty. [ 1913 Webster] 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
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