vast

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /vɑːst/    美 /væst/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A vast space. poetic
    — they have seemed to be together, though absent, shook hands, as over a vast, and embraced, as it were, from the ends of opposed winds.
形容词 adj.
  1. Very large or wide (literally or figuratively).
    — The Sahara desert is vast.
  2. Very great in size, amount, degree, intensity, or especially extent.
    — The exiguity and ſmallneſſe of ſome ſeeds extending to large productions is one of the magnalities of nature, ſomewhat illuſtrating the work of the Creation, and vaſt production from nothing.
  3. Waste; desert; desolate; lonely. obsolete
    — the empty, vast, and wandering air

词形变化

vaster comparative more vast comparative vastest superlative most vast superlative vasts plural

词源

词源 1
From Middle French vaste, from Latin vastus (“void, immense”). Related to waste and German Wüste.
词源 2
From Middle French vaste, from Latin vastus (“void, immense”). Related to waste and German Wüste.
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