Vast

Adjective

 * 1) Very large or wide (literally or figuratively).
 * The Sahara desert is vast.
 * There is a vast difference between them.
 * 1) Very great in size, amount, degree, intensity, or especially extent.

Noun

 * 1)  A vast space.
 * 2) * 1608: they have seemed to be together, though absent, shook hands, as over a vast, and embraced, as it were, from the ends of opposed winds. — William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, I.i

Derived terms

 * vastly
 * vastness
 * ultravast

Adjectives for Vast
populous; current; fathomless; boundless; unimagined. adverbs enormously; mysteriously; stupendously; impossibly; overwhelmingly; strangely; colossally; prodigiously; astonishingly; marvellously; extraordinarily; miraculously.

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
From vastus:.

Adjective

 * Chinese: 浩大的
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: vaste /
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek: απέραντος, απέραντη , απέραντο


 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 広大な (koudai na), 莫大な (bakudai na)
 * Korean: 광막한
 * Norwegian: ,voldsom
 * Polish: rozległy, rozległa , rozległe
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:

Anagrams

 * tavs
 * vats

Adjective

 * 1) firm, fast, tight, fixed
 * Een knoop is een manier om een lijn (touw) min of meer blijvend ergens aan vast te maken, of om twee touwen aan elkaar vast te maken. &mdash; A knot is a manner of fastening more or less permanently a line of rope to something, or of fastening a pair of ropes to each other.
 * 1)  in the solid state
 * 2)  perennial
 * 3)  using a landline

Derived terms

 * vastbinden
 * vasthouden
 * vastleggen
 * vastlopen
 * vastmaken
 * vaststellen
 * vastzitten


 * rotsvast

Etymology
Ultimately from, from.

Cognate via Germanic with English fast#Etymology 2:, German fest:, Icelandic (and Faroese) fastur:, Norwegian fast:, and Swedish fast:. Cognate via with Armenian հաստ: and Sanskrit पस्त्य:.

Noun

 * 1) hand