Synonyms for vast
væst, vɑstvast

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1. vast

   Large denotes extension in more than one direction, and beyond the average of the class to which the object belongs; we speak of a large surface or a large solid, but of a long line; a large field, a large room, a large apple, etc. A large man is a man of more than ordinary size; a great man is a man of remarkable mental power. Big is a more emphatic word than large, but of less dignity. We do not say that George Washington was a big man.

   Synonyms:
   abundant, ample, big, broad, bulky, capacious, coarse, colossal, commodious, considerable, enormous, extensive, gigantic, grand, great, huge, immense, large, long, massive, spacious, wide

   Antonyms:
   brief, diminutive, inconsiderable, infinitesimal, insignificant, limited, little, mean, microscopic, minute, narrow, paltry, petty, scanty, short, slender, slight, small, tiny, trifling, trivial

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1. vast

   Synonyms:
   waste, wild, desolate, extensive, spacious, wide spread, gigantic, wide, boundless, measureless, enormous, mighty, huge, immense, colossal, prodigious, far-reaching

   Antonyms:
   narrow, close, confined, frequented, populated, cultivated, tended, tilled, limited, bounded, circumscribed, moderate

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1. huge, immense, vast, Brobdingnagianadjective

   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

   Synonyms:
   immense, huge

   Antonyms:
   small, little

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1. vastadjective

   Synonyms:
   very spacious, very extensive

2. vastadjective

   Synonyms:
   huge, enormous, immense, colossal, gigantic, prodigious, stupendous, very great

3. vastadjective

   Synonyms:
   remarkable, extraordinary

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1. vastadjective

   Synonyms:
   spacious, immense, monstrous, huge, extensive, immeasurable

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1. List of paraphrases for "vast":

   wide, overwhelming, broad, large, huge, great, enormous, immense, extensive, tremendous, big, massive, major, wide-ranging, grande, comprehensive, grand, considerable, large-scale, widespread, high

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1. Rajveer Purohit:

   You can imagine a balloon that gets filled up with water, and then you have this tense sheath that's surrounding the balloon, and that's what gives you the stiffness with an erection. And the fracture is a rupture of the balloon and the sheath surrounding the balloon, the vast majority of cases are one-sided, or unilateral, corporal ruptures. But sometimes Rajveer Purohit do have someone who's had a bilateral, or two-sided, corporal fracture involving the urethra.

2. Mark Twain:

   Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

3. Karl Marx:

   Colonial system, public debts, heavy taxes, protection, commercial wars, etc., these offshoots of the period of manufacture swell to gigantic proportions during the period of infancy of large-scale industry. The birth of the latter is celebrated by a vast, Hero-like slaughter of the innocents.

4. Brian White of Cantor Fitzgerald:

   In our view, as more things become computers, we believe Apple is very well positioned [to develop] hardware and software innovations together across a vast digital ecosystem.

5. David Feldman:

   The vast majority of experts now either agree with us or accept that there is a strong case for our thesis.