Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Vast.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Vast; boundless; being of great extent; very spacious; immense.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Vast; immense.
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- adjective
vast
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Examples
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Again, there are echoes of Shakespeare, who liked to coin words such as vasty, steepy, and plumpy.
On useful tautology DC 2010
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Again, there are echoes of Shakespeare, who liked to coin words such as vasty, steepy, and plumpy.
Archive 2010-05-01 DC 2010
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On the other hand, in _Requiescat_ there is not a false note, unless it be the dubious word "vasty" in the last line; and even that may shelter itself under the royal mantle of Shakespeare.
Matthew Arnold George Saintsbury 1889
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And yet he was a really truly sailor fresh from the vasty deep.
SMALL-BOAT SAILING 2010
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Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
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Actually there are limitless supplies available at around $35 barrel, the level where it becomes generally ecomomic to covert stocks other than "pumped light oil" into oil products -- those other stocks being the likes of heavy oil, coal, gas, tar sands, shale, etc., which exist in quantities vasty greater than humanity will ever use.
Basic Oil Economics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
come down off your throne and leave your body alone truepenny 2009
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Out of love for me and concern for my overall health and in light of my family history of diabetes and my tendency to drink vasty quantities of sugary drinks, preferentially Dr. Pepper, and further in consideration of my strong desire not to obtain a second dog, Brianna and I have entered into the following agreement:
Meanwhile, art continues... frankwu 2010
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If you spend your days more or less the way Carr does -- if you are a knowledge worker, a trawler of the vasty Interwebz, ever searching for information, diversion and a sense of social connection -- you probably have your own version of his sense that life online is often a life lived in distraction.
Nicholas Carr's "The Shallows" and William Powers's "Hamlet's Blackberry" 2010
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If you spend your days more or less the way Carr does -- if you are a knowledge worker, a trawler of the vasty Interwebz, ever searching for information, diversion and a sense of social connection -- you probably have your own version of his sense that life online is often a life lived in distraction.
Nicholas Carr's "The Shallows" and William Powers's "Hamlet's Blackberry" 2010
reesetee commented on the word vasty
Immense.
February 12, 2008