Vast

Definition: Vast

Vast

Adjective

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.

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Date "vast" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

VAST

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Vast

Arrangement

Phrase: "In vast cumbrous array".

Greatness

Vast, immense, enormous, extreme; inordinate, excessive, extravagant, exorbitant, outrageous, preposterous, unconscionable, swinging, monstrous, overgrown; towering, stupendous, prodigious, astonishing, incredible; marvelous.

Knowledge

Deep knowledge, profound knowledge, solid knowledge, accurate knowledge, acroatic knowledge, acroamatic knowledge, vast knowledge, extensive knowledge, encyclopedic knowledge, encyclopedic learning; omniscience, pantology.

Size

Huge, immense, enormous, mighty; vast, vasty; amplitudinous, stupendous; monster, monstrous, humongous, monumental; elephantine, jumbo, mammoth; gigantic, gigantean, giant, giant like, prodigious, colossal, Cyclopean, Brobdingnagian, Bunyanesque, Herculean, Gargantuan; infinite.

Space

Adjective: spacious, roomy, extensive, expansive, capacious, ample; widespread, vast, world-wide, uncircumscribed; boundless; (infinite); shoreless, trackless, pathless; extended.

Crosswords: Vast

Dutch (abiding, all the time, certain, certainly, constant, continual, continuous, definite, definitive, fast, firm, firmly, fixed, in the meantime, lasting, meanwhile, permanent, probably, solid, stable, sure, sustained), Romanian (ample, broad, comprehensive, expansive, extensive, far reaching, large, measureless, spacious, vast, wide).

Well, it doesn't, Mr. Potter! In the whole vast configuration of things, I'd say you were nothing but a scurvy little spider (It's a Wonderful Life; writing credit: Philip Van Doren Stern; Frances Goodrich)

It holds vast powers (Willow; writing credit: Bob Dolman; George Lucas)

One might say that living in society today is almost like living in a vast comic strip (2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle; writing credit: Catherine Vimenet; Jean-Luc Godard)

This is a story of tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow, when men have built a station in space, constructed in the form of a great wheel, and set a thousand miles out from the Earth, fixed by gravity, and turning about the world every two hours, serving a double purpose: an observation post in the heavens, and a place where a spaceship can be assembled, and then launched to explore other planets, and the vast universe itself, in the last and greatest adventure of mankind, the plunge toward the (Conquest of Space; writing credit: Chesley Bonestell; Willy Ley)

That's funny; it doesn't look like a vast wasteland (The Monkees; writing credit: Dee Caruso; Gerald Gardner)

Some inner truth of vast reflection (Hook; performing artist: Blues Traveler)

A misconception, a vast deception (Video; performing artist: India.Arie)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A Vast Illusion: Time According to 'A Course in Miracles' (reference)

• Against This Vast Army: Book I of the Hand of God Series (reference)

• Map It!: Tools for Charting the Vast Territories of Your Mind [5 Pack] (reference)

• Native American History: A Chronology of the Vast Achievements of a Culture and Their Links to World Events (reference)

• So Vast the Prison: A Novel (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Vast Active Living Intelligence System (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Pictured here is a computer laboratory with rows of machinery. This technology aids in cancer research. Without it, it would be impossible to store and retrieve the vast amounts of information needed for detailed research projects. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

Shown is a technician in a white lab coat reading a printout from a computer. The new technology today helps physicians in their research attempts to store and retrieve the vast amounts of data needed to solve the mystery of cancer. In this case the technician is performing a step in the analysis of an estrogen receptor assay. Results will tell whether removal of ovaries will be necessary. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

The vast majority of rabies cases reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) each year occur in wild animals like raccoons, skunks, bats, and foxes. Credit: CDC.

For the past decade astronomers have looked for vast quantities of hydrogen that were cooked ... Credit: NASA.

The colorful picture on the right is a Hubble telescope snapshot of a vast nebula of dust and ... Credit: NASA.

Once a vast carpet of healthy vegetation, the Amazon rain forest is changing rapidly. This image of Bolivia shows dramatic deforestation in the Amazon Basin. Loggers have cut long paths into the forest, while ranchers have cleared large blocks for their herds. Fanning out from these clear-cut areas are settlements built in radial arrangements of fields and farms. Healthy vegetation appears bright red in this image. Credit: NASA.

On the border between Chile and the Catamarca province of Argentina lies a vast field of currently dormant volcanoes. Over time, these volcanoes have laid down a crust of magma roughly 2 miles (3.2 km) thick. It is tinged with a patina of various colors that can indicate both the age and mineral content of the original lava flows. Credit: NASA.

Commander Frank Borden and Lieutenant Commander Paul A. Smith Borden headed nautical charting and Smith headed aeronautical charting for C&GS 11 million nautical charts and about 60 million aeronautical charts annually These two men helped move vast quantitities of men, supplies, and ordnance. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

First attempt at a bathymetric map by Matthew Fontaine Maury Published in The Physical Geography of the Sea Showed vast relatively shoal area in Mid-Atlantic Gave birth to notion of "Telegraphic Plateau" Helped sell Trans-Atlantic telegraphic cable. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Along Snake River at Kniesel, a rancher is viewing his vast stands of medusahead (a noxious weed). Credit: Jerry Asher.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

This measure did confine every man's possession to a very moderate proportion, and such as he might appropriate to himself, without injury to any body, in the first ages of the world, when men were more in danger to be lost, by wandering from their company, in the then vast wilderness of the earth, than to be straitened for want of room to plant in. (Second Treatise of Government)

When, in the course of development, class distinctions have disappeared, and all production has been concentrated in the hands of a vast association of the whole nation, the public power will lose its political character. (reference)

At the end of the fighting last June, the American and British Armies withdrew westwards, in accordance with an earlier agreement, to a depth at some points of 150 miles upon a front of nearly four hundred miles, in order to allow our Russian allies to occupy this vast expanse of territory which the Western Democracies had conquered. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1932)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

And it was spoken with a sort of sighing animation, which had a vast deal of the lover

My Lady turned her head away to conceal the broad grin of triumph that spread over her vast face, like a ripple on a lake

In came Mrs. Fezziwig, one vast substantial smile

Mason gave him another grim look from a vast repertoire he had developed which ranged from very, very blackly grim indeed at the bottom of the scale, all the way up to tiredly resigned and only faintly grim, which he reserved for his children’s birthdays

It must have been a work of vast ability in the somniferous school of literature

However, when they reached the great square, the citizen showed him four long lighted windows on the front of a vast dark building

Its alternation of sad human ineffectualness with vast inhuman cycles of activity chilled him, and he forgot his own human and ineffectual grieving

They are so vast and magnificent that the latter seem to be only vermin which infest them

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Unfortunately, the vast majority of women with ovarian cancer are diagnosed with advanced disease. (references)

In published studies, the vast majority of babies examined were born at term and had no known medical problems. (references)

Nonallergic people produce small amounts of this antibody, but allergy sufferers produce vast quantities as a reaction to allergens. (references)

Business

Moreover, a vast number of electric utilities have now been privatized. (references)

Until 1990, the vast majority of PC sales in Japan were to business users. (references)

ROMGAZ has a vast network of pipes with a total length in excess of 35,000 kilometers. (references)

Children

Macau

School attendance is not compulsory; however, the vast majority of residents' children attend school. (references)

Lithuania

Legal provisions for access to buildings for the disabled are in place but are not enforced widely; the vast majority of public buildings remain inaccessible. (references)

Paraguay

In a survey released during the year, the NGO "AMAR" identified 619 child victims of sexual exploitation, the vast majority of whom in Asuncion and Ciudad del Este. (references)

Civil Liberties

Mongolia

Nonetheless, the vast majority of radio and television stations and frequency licenses remain state-owned. (references)

Mexico

The Manuel Buendia Foundation, one of the NGO's, concluded that the vast majority of acts were intended to intimidate. (references)

Pakistan

However, in practice the Government has allowed the vast majority of the Afghans who have entered the country to remain. (references)

Economic History

India

Vast distances separate the most populous cities. (references)

Brazil

Brazil is endowed with vast agricultural resources. (references)

Moldova

Therefore, the vast majority of Internet users are corporate clients. (references)

Human Rights

Mozambique

There continued to be many deaths in prison, the vast majority due to illness and disease. (references)

Mozambique

There are an estimated 200 licensed attorneys in the country; the vast majority work in Maputo. (references)

Dominican Republic

The circumstances of the vast majority of these killings are questionable, but witnesses other than the police usually are lacking. (references)

Minorities

Germany

All branches of Islam are represented in the country, with the vast majority of Muslims coming from a large number of other countries. (references)

Political Economy

Liberia

Governmental corruption continues to advantage a few, while the vast majority of Liberians live in poverty. (references)

URUGUAY

This wage is not binding for the vast majority of the economic sectors that pay significantly higher salaries. (references)

Political Rights

Nigeria

All three parties engaged in the local purchase of false ballots and fraudulent tally sheets so that there were vast discrepancies between what observers saw and inflated tallies in some areas. (references)

Trade

Argentina

However, the vast majority of electrical and electronic products are still subject to this regulation. (references)

India

From 1947 to 1991, India's import and export policies were such that a vast majority of goods had to be imported under license. (references)

Travel

Taiwan

International Courier Services: In addition to the vast range of government postal services available in Taiwan, visitors should also be aware that most of the leading international courier services have set up operations on the island. (references)

Women

Hungary

Spousal abuse is believed to be common, but the vast majority of such abuse is not reported, and victims who come forward often receive little help from authorities. (references)

Togo

Under traditional law, which applies to the vast majority of women, a wife has no maintenance or child support rights in the event of divorce or separation and no inheritance rights upon the death of her husband. (references)

Worker Rights

Morocco

However, wages for the vast majority of workers are set unilaterally by employers. (references)

Zimbabwe

Many of the basic legal protections do not apply to the vast majority of farm, mine, and domestic workers. (references)

Haiti

Women also report that while the vast majority of assembly sector workers are women, virtually all the supervisors are men. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "vast": a man of vast acquirements ♦ a vast multitude ♦ a vast sum ♦ of vast dimensions ♦ of vast reading ♦ to a vast extent ♦ vast amount ♦ vast difference ♦ vast expance ♦ vast expanse ♦ vast field ♦ vast majority ♦ vast number ♦ vast number of ♦ vast success ♦ vast sums of money. Additional references.

Beginning with "vast": vast-breasted.

Containing "vast": oral-aggressive-anal-retentive-come-and-see-me-five-times-a-week-for-years-at-vast-expense-or-how-do-i-know-you're-really-committed.

Afrikaans

uitgestrek (extensive, spacious, wide). (various references)

Albanian

i pafund (abysmal, bottomless, boundless, dateless, endless, immeasurable, immense, inexhaustible, infinite, interminable, lengthy, limitless, never ending, numberless, spaceless, unending, unlimited, vasty), i madh (bally, big, black, bouncing, capacious, capital, chuckle, chunking, close, grand, great, gross, intense, large, lumping, major, massive, mighty, pelting, thumping, vasty, voluminous, whacking, whaling), i gjerë (ample, broad, broadminded, capacious, champaign, commodious, expanded, extensive, far flung, far reaching, hospitable, large, large scale, liberal, massive, mighty, rangy, roomy, spacious, splay, sweeping, vasty, wide). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فسيح (ample, broad, capacious, expansive, roomy, spacious), ‏كبير (big, bulky, considerable, enormous, extent, formidable, full grown, grand, great, huge, immense, king size, large, magnificent, major, massive, massy, senior, sizable, sweeping, tremendous, voluminous, whacking, whopping), ‏مقدار ضخم (smart, wilderness), ‏وسيع, ‏ضخم (astronomic, astronomical, awful, big, bulking, bulky, bull, colossal, colossus, considerable, distend, elephantine, enormous, exaggerate, extend, exuberant, fat, gargantuan, ghastly, giant, gigantic, goodly, grand, great, handsome, heavy, hefty, heroic, huge, hulking, husky, immense, intense, jumbo, large, leviathan, liberal, mammoth, mass, massive, mighty, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, outsize, oversize, palatial, phenomenal, powerful, prodigious, proud, round, royal, sizable, smart, strapping, strong, stupendous, sublime, swingeing, tall, tidy, titan, titanic, towering, tremendous, voluminous, whacking, whopping), ‏اتساع (vastness), ‏شاسع (enormous, wide). (various references)

Bulgarian 

широк (ample, broad, capacious, catholic, deep, extensive, flaring, flyaway, full, large, loose, neglige, spacious, sweeping, untight, voluminous, wide), шир (expanse, tract), голям (almighty, big, chunking, gone, great, grown up, hearty, heavy, hefty, jolly, large, major, man-sized, massive, near, numerous, powerful, proper, vasty, walloping), всестранен (all round, versatile), огромен (enormous, formidable, gargantuan, giantlike, herculean, howling, huge, mammoth, mighty, monumental, mountainous, oceanic, oversize, planetary, portentous, prodigious, slashing, super, terrible, terrific, thumping, thundering, tremendous, unwieldy, walloping, whacking, whaling, whopping), обширен (ample, broad, commodious, comprehensive, expansive, extensive, far flung, generic, large, large scale, rangy, spacious, vasty, voluminous, wide), необятен (spanless), пълен (absolute, alive, all out, ample, beefy, clear, compendious, complete, corpulent, dead, entire, exhaustive, explicit, fat, fleshy, fraught, full, grand, implicit, intact, integral, integrate, lousy, murky, out and out, outright, overall, overblown, perfect, plenary, portly, profound, pursy, radical, rank, replenished, replete, riddle, right, round, sheer, stark, stout, substantial, teetotal, thoroughgoing, thorough-paced, total, unabbreviated, universal, unmitigated, unqualified, unreserved, utter, very, well fed, whole, whole-footed, whole-hog), просторен (commodious, expansive, extended, extensive, large, oceanic, rangy, roomy, spacious, wide), простор (elbow room, expanse, margin, play, scope, vastness, vent), изчерпателен (detailed, exhaustive, radical). (various references)

Chinese 

澒 (infinite), 廣闊 (wide), 濊 (expansive), 昊 (clear summer sky), 汎 (broad, float, mercury, pan-), 滄 (blue, cold, green), 浩 (grand), 廣大 (extensive), 漭 (expansive), 茫 (vague), 澔 (grand), 泂 , 灝 , 紘 (cord for hat), 穹 (arched, lofty), 遼闊 (extensive), 浩大. (various references)

Czech

rozsáhlý (big, comprehensive, extensive, far flung, large, widespread), propastný (abysmal, immense), ohromný (dishy, enormous, formidable, gigantic, great, huge, immense, mean, splendid, stupendous, terrific, towering, tremendous, vasty, whacking), nesmírný (enormous, extreme, great, immeasurable, immense, infinite, prodigious, rare, unbounded, utmost), enormní (formidable, huge, immense), drtivý (crushing). (various references)

Danish

rummelig (extensive, spacious, wide). (various references)

Dutch

ruim (above, extensive, hold, more than, over, spacious, wide, widely), royaal (extensive, generous, spacious, wide), groot (adult, big, extensive, full-grown, great, lanky, large, of high stature, spacious, tall, wide), breedvoerig (extensive, spacious, wide). (various references)

Esperanto

vasta (extensive, spacious, wide). (various references)

Faeroese

víður (broad, extensive, spacious, wide), rúmur (extensive, spacious, wide). (various references)

Farsi 

پهناور (Ample, Broad, Extensive, Immense, Wide), وسیع (Abroad, Ample, Captious, Comprehensive, Extensive, Immense, Large, Roomy, Spacious, Wide), زیاد (Copious, Extortionary, Far, Generous, Great, Heavy, High, Immoderate, Intense, Late, Liberal, Manifold, Many, Much, Populous, Rife, Superabundant, Thick, Too, Very, Wide), عظیم (August, Enormous, Glorious, Great, Massive, Terrific, Tremendous, Whopper), بیکران (Immeasurable, Immense, Indefinite, Infinite), بزرگ (Adult, Arch, Big, Bulky, Egregious, Enormous, Extensive, Extra, Grand, Grave, Great, Gross, Headman, Jumbo, Large, Lofty, Majestic, Major, Massive, Mighty, Sizable, Sizeable, Swith, Voluminous). (various references)

Finnish

avara (broad, extensive, spacious, wide). (various references)

French

vaste, large, infini, immense, démesuré, ample, étendu. (various references)

German

ausgedehnt (distended, extended, extensive, far reaching, lengthy, overstretched, prolonged, spacious, spaciously, stretched, wide), weit (a long way, afar, ample, away, big, broad, by far, capacious, dilated, distant, elastic, extensive, far, far away, great, large, long, loose, loose-fitting, open, remote, remotely, roomy, spacious, wide, widely). (various references)

Greek 

μέγιστοσ (biggest), απέραντοσ (boundless, capacious, infinite), απέραντος, αχανήσ (cosmic, immense), τεράστιος (huge, immense, massive, prodigious). (various references)

Hebrew 

עצום (essence, force, gigantic, heavy, huge, immense, massive, mighty, strength, thundering, tremendous, walloping, whacking, whopping), נרחב (ample, broad, extensive, far reaching, spacious, wide). (various references)

Hungarian

széles (broad, extensive, large, spacious, wide, widish), rengeteg (a great deal, a great many, a lot of, bags of, heaps of, lashings, loads of, lots of, no end of, oodles, scores, slathers, stacks of, whacking-great), mérhetetlen (bottomless, fathomless, huge, immeasurable, immense, spanless, unbounded), hatalmas (ample, enormous, giant, gigantean, gigantesque, gigantic, grandiose, herculean, huge, mighty, monumental, overpowering, powerful, smashing, Titanic), óriási (capital, colossal, elephantine, enormous, gargantuan, giant, giantlike, gigantean, gigantesque, gigantic, grandiose, helluva, huge, immeasurable, immense, jumbo, mammoth, monster, monstrous, mountainous, prodigious, smashing, smashing victory, stupendous, terrific, tremendous, vasty, way-out, whacking, whopping). (various references)

Icelandic

víður (broad, extensive, spacious, wide), rúmgóður (extensive, spacious, wide). (various references)

Indonesian

luas (amplitude, capacious, commodious, comprehensive, dimensional, expansive, extensive, extent, far-ranging (discussion), wide), bambang (extensive). (various references)

Italian

vasto (ample, distant, extensive, far, large, long, multitudinous, remote, roomy, sweeping, wide, widely). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

広漠 , 広い (spacious, wide). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ばくだい (enormous), ようよう (broad, disposition, important matters), ようようたる (boundless, overflowing with water, spacious), こうだい (extensive, future generations, grand, great, huge, immense, impressive, magnificent, posterity, technical college, very large), こうだいむへん (boundless, infinite), こうばく, とうとう (after all, and so on, at last, calm, clashing of swords, felling of trees, finally, flowing, reaching a head, ringing of an ax, swift, voluminous), こうぜんたる (elated, magnanimous, official, open, overt, proud, public, triumphant), くうくうばくばく (boundless, empty, vague), ばくばく (obscure, vague), ぼうばくたる (boundless, obscure, vague), まんまん (brimming with, full of, fully, never, very much), まんまんたる (boundless), ひろい (broadminded, spacious, wide), くうばく (aerial bombing, vague), こうばくたる (boundless, wide). (various references)

Korean 

광막한. (various references)

Manx

foawragh (Cyclopean, giant, giantlike, gigantic, hulking, kingsize), feer vooar (colossal, giant, gigantic, massive, monumental, whopping), feayn (expansive, extensive, horizontal, roomy, vague, wide), ass towse (excess, excessive, excessively), anvaaragh (boundless). (various references)

Norwegian

vid (extensive, loose, spacious, wide). (various references)

Pig Latin

astvay.(various references)

Portuguese

vasto (all-embracing, boundless, colossal, deep, extensive, far-flung, far-reaching, great, huge, immense, open, spacious, sweeping, vasty, wide), amplo (all-embracing, ample, broad, bulky, commodious, extensive, full, large, loose, open, plump, roomy, wide). (various references)

Romanian

vast (ample, broad, comprehensive, expansive, extensive, far reaching, large, measureless, spacious, wide), uriaş (astronomic, astronomical, colossal, colossus, elephantine, enormous, giant, giantlike, gigantic, goliath, huge, immense, infinite, mammoth, mite, monster, monumental, mountainous, ogre, prodigious, strapping, thumping), mare (acred, adult, ample, big, boundless, brine, broad, bulky, deep, dense, enormous, famous, fat, flux, foam, gorgeous, grand, grandiose, great, gross, hard, heavy, high, howling, huge, hulking, illustrious, immense, important, keen, king size, large, large scale, long, loose, major, man-sized, massy, mighty, open, pond, ponderous, pretty, renowned, rich, roomy, sea, sensible, severe, spacious, stupendous, tall, thick, thundering, violent, voluminous, wide), lung (extensive, lengthy, livelong, long, long winded, protracted), larg (ample, broad, broadly, comprehensive, extensive, full, large, loose, mighty, open-mindedly, roomy, space, spacious, spaciousness, wide), imens (boundless, colossal, deep, huge, hugely, immense, immensely, mountain, ocean-wide, overwhelming, profound, thumping, tremendous), gigantic (colossal, giant, giantlike, gigantic, huge, mammoth, monster, Titanic), enorm (astonishing, awful, colossal, enormous, frightful, huge, hugely, hugeous, immense, immensely, infinite, massive, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, prodigious, terrible, thundering, tremendous, whopping), colosal (astronomic, astronomical, capitally, colossal, colossally, enormous, enormously, gigantic, grand, huge, jumbo, monster, monstrous, mountain, ocean-wide, smashing, some, strapping, terrible, thundering), întins (broad, even, expanse, expansion, expansive, extensive, flat, flatly, large, lengthy, mighty, open, outspread, prone, recumbent, smooth, spacious, sprawling, strained, stretched, supine, taut, tense). (various references)

Russian 

обширный (ample, big, broad, expansive, extended, extensive, far flung, far-flung, large, long, rangy, spacious, voluminous, wide-ranging). (various references)

Scottish

adhbhal. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prostran (broad, capacious, commodious, extensive, rangy, spacious), ogroman (enormous, gargantuan, huge, immense, jumbo, lumping, monster, oversized, stupendous, swingeing, tremendous, vasty, whopping). (various references)

Spanish

vasto (distant, extensive, far, grandiose, great, huge, long, remote, vasty, wide, widely), vacío (bare, blank, devoid, dummy, emptiness, empty, gap, hiatus, hollow, light, vacant, vacuous, vacuum, void), extenso (big, broad, capacious, extensive, far flung, full, large, lengthy, spacious, wide, widespread), enorme (cyclopean, egregious, enormous, great, gross, heinous, huge, immense, jumbo, killing, king size, marvellous, marvelous, massive, mighty, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, outsize, prodigious, swingeing, thundering, tremendous, walloping, whacking). (various references)

Swedish

vidsträckt (ample, expansive, extensive, large, wide, widely-spread), vidlyftig (extensive, prolix), väldig (almighty, awful, colossal, enormous, formidable, frantic, grand, huge, immense, mighty, oceanic, swingeing, swinging, thumping, thundering, tremendous, walloping). (various references)

Turkish

uçsuz bucaksız (endless, immense, limitless, no end in sight, shoreless), geniş (ample, broad, broadly, capacious, commodious, comprehensive, cosmic, cosmical, expansive, extended, extensive, full, large, obtuse, open, roomy, spacious, splay, walk in, wide), dünya kadar, büyük boşluk, çok büyük (a whale of, fab, fantastic, fantastical, howling, hyper-, sovereign, spanking, stratospheric, thumping, tremendous, very big, voluminous, whopping), çok (a great number of, a lot, a whale of, a whale of a lot, abounding, abundant, acres and acres, affluent, ample, awfully, badly, big, bloody, countless, damned, darned, dead, deadly, deeply, enormously, ever so, exuberant, fair, fantastically, galore, good, greatly, heaps of, heartily, hearty, heavily, heavy, hell, hell of, helluva, highly, innumerable, jolly, largely, lavish, like hell, loads of, lot, lots of, many, molto, more, much, multi-, multitudinous, numerous, over, piping, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, plenty of, poly-, precious, pretty, prodigal, profuse, rank, rattling, revoltingly, sadly, so, some, sorely, spanking, strongly, such, thundering, tidy, too, umpteen, umpteenth, umptieth, vastly, very, well, whaling, whopping). (various references)

Ukrainian

численний (large, manifold, multifold, multitudinous, myriad, numerous, plenty, umpteen), широкий (ample, big, broad, capacious, catholic, main, multitudinous, sweeping, wide), великий (big, bulky, bumping, capital, copious, goodly, great, king size, large, out), безліч (a lot of, abundance, army, array, bag, bagful, barrel, bushel, cumulus, dozens, host, infinite, lashings, legion, lots of, multitude, number, numbers, ocean, oodles, orb, orgy, pack, plenty, reams, rout, ruck, scores, shoal, shower, ton, variety, wealth, wilderness, world), простір (amplitude, area, elbow room, expanse, expansion, place, region, space, stretch). (various references)

Vietnamese 

rộng lớn (vastly), mênh mông (illimitable, immeasurable, immense, unmeasurable, unmeasured, vastly). (various references)

Welsh

dirfawr (enormous, huge, immense). (various references)

amplus, immensus, ingens, ingentem, ingentes, ingenti, ingentia, ingentique, inmensa, inmensae, inmensas, inmensis, inmensos, inmensum, inmensus, latus, profundus, vasthi, vastus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "vast": vaster, vastest, vastier, vastiest, vastities, vastitude, vastitudes, vastity, vastly, vastness, vastnesses, vasts, vasty. (additional references)

Words ending with "vast": avast. (additional references)

Words containing "vast": devastate, devastated, devastates, devastating, devastatingly, devastation, devastations, devastative, devastator, devastators, lovastatin, lovastatins. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Vast" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: avast, avest, Avesta, avist, dast, iast, tvist, tvsat, vaat, vacet, vacs, vact, vaes, vaet, vaft, vaist, vait, vajs, vaks, valt, vaot, vapt, vart, Vasa, vash, vask, vaso, Vasp, vaste, vasto, vasts, vasy, vatsa, vatso, vatt, vattr, vatu, vaty, vaus, vaust, vautt, vavs, vaz, veast, vesk, vesp, vesty, vfas, vhs, vict, visk, vist, visty, visy, vits, vitt, vlas, Vlasi, Vlasta, vms, vodt, vos, vost, voxt, vrs, vsc, vsd, vss, vst, vsv, vus. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: tavs, vats.

-1 letter: sat, tas, tav, vas, vat.

-2 letters: as, at, ta.

+1 letter: avast, stave, vasts, vasty, vatus, vesta, vista.

+2 letters: averts, avoset, davits, gavots, lovats, savant, savate, starve, staved, staves, traves, valets, vaster, vastly, vaults, vaunts, vestal, vestas, vistas, vitals.

+3 letters: abvolts, actives, advects, advents, adverts, atavism, atavist, avatars, aviates, avocets, avosets, bravest, caveats, cavorts, cravats, datives, estival, fauvist, gravest, harvest, levants, mitsvah, naivest, natives, octaves, octavos, ottavas, savants, savates, servant, solvate, spaviet, starved, starver, starves, stative, staving, suavest, suavity, taverns, thraves, travels, travois, vacates, vaguest, vainest, valutas, varlets, varsity, vastest, vastier, vastity, vatfuls, veritas, versant, vestals, vestral, viators, vistaed, waviest, zemstva.