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. Tim Cook:

   The vast majority of our products are kind of made everywhere, there is a significant level of content in the United States, and a lot from Japan to Korea to China, and the European Union also contributes a fair amount. ... I think that will carry the day in the future as well.

2. Republican National Committee:

   Hillary Clinton's growing scandals and the multiple investigations into the potential mishandling of classified info is a mess of her own creation. As Democrats debate in Vegas the RNC will continue to remind voters, including Democrats, why the vast majority of Americans find Clinton to be dishonest and untrustworthy.

3. Wasseem Hussain:

   We're not storing people in vast numbers, where they can do what they want.

4. Jennifer Glass:

   The big question, and a topic of active scientific debate, is whether the purple bacteria living on the ancient Earth had the ability to protect themselves from UV radiation well enough to inhabit vast expanses of the land surface, like plants do on the modern Earth, the spectral signature of the pigment would be much stronger if the pigmented bacteria covered the land surface.

5. Shaunna Thomas:

   The entertainment industry still has a lot of work to do, as pretty much every industry does, but, obviously their impact on culture is significant. They shape the content that the vast majority of people in this country are consuming, and so when you have misogynists shaping that kind of content that people are seeing, that's serious.