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Vastest

Vast \Vast\, a. [Compar. Vaster; superl. Vastest.] [L. vastus empty, waste, enormous, immense: cf. F. vaste. See Waste, and cf. Devastate.]

  1. Waste; desert; desolate; lonely. [Obs.]

    The empty, vast, and wandering air.
    --Shak.

  2. Of great extent; very spacious or large; also, huge in bulk; immense; enormous; as, the vast ocean; vast mountains; the vast empire of Russia.

    Through the vast and boundless deep.
    --Milton.

  3. Very great in numbers, quantity, or amount; as, a vast army; a vast sum of money.

  4. Very great in importance; as, a subject of vast concern.

    Syn: Enormous; huge; immense; mighty.

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vastest

a. (en-superlative of: vast)

Usage examples of "vastest".

And later, as Supreme Commander South East Asia, he had directed the combined operations of great sea, land and air forces until they achieved a brilliant victory in the vastest of all our theatres of war.

And now the yellow sun of Home Hive One shone on the vastest dogfight in history.

This base dwarfed the vastest human installation he'd ever seen—how in God's name had a bunch of aliens managed an engineering project of such magnitude without anyone even noticing?

At eight hundred-plus light-years, even the vastest funnel was an impossibly tiny target, but Bergren's calculations flicked the disembodied bureaucrats expertly into its bell-shaped mouth.

I might imagine myself to be the Pharaoh Cheops entombed in the centre of the Great Pyramid, still by far the vastest monument ever raised by human hands.

She had seen the heavens produce many marvels: lightning, whirlwinds, hail, and rainbows—but nothing like the waves of color, vaster than the vastest thunderhead, that rolled across that sky beyond the crack.