vast

Reading level: medium

Estimated CEFR level: A2 — Elementary

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

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adjective unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; - W.R.Inge

From Middle French vaste, from Latin vastus (“void, immense”). Related to waste and German Wüste.

It's a vast amount better than nothing." — The Jolliest School of All, Angela Brazil
A vast expanse of transparent stuff appeared. — This star shall be free, Murray Leinster
Two questions of vast importance were thus raised: 1. — A School History of the United States, John Bach McMaster

huge, immense, Brobdingnagian

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