Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Like a waste; desolately.
  • Very greatly; to a vast extent or degree: also in exaggerated colloquial use (see vast, a., 4).

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb To a vast extent or degree; very greatly; immensely.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb Greatly, in a vast manner.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb to an exceedingly great extent or degree

Etymologies

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vast +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • It was an expression vastly different from the tired helplessness she had seen in the faces of men coming home from the war after the surrender.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • It was an expression vastly different from the tired helplessness she had seen in the faces of men coming home from the war after the surrender.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • It was an expression vastly different from the tired helplessness she had seen in the faces of men coming home from the war after the surrender.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • It was an expression vastly different from the tired helplessness she had seen in the faces of men coming home from the war after the surrender.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • It was an expression vastly different from the tired helplessness she had seen in the faces of men coming home from the war after the surrender.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • And I, as you may have picked up, tend to think the term vastly overused hereabouts ...

    UUpdates - All updates 2008

  • The WS410 access point sports six antenna and uses beamforming -- a single radio method of handling signal reflection and directionality -- to provide what they term a vastly increased coverage area.

    Wi-Fi Networking News 2009

  • [ 'The country still would've been in vastly better shape, because Bush is a fool's fool.']

    Matthew Yglesias » What Might Have Been 2009

  • They've all been manageable but in vastly different ways.

    "A Manageable State of Anxiety" - SpouseBUZZ 2009

  • Would conservatives argue that the IRS is awesome because it takes in vastly more money than it spends?

    Matthew Yglesias » LaHood to Change Bush-Era Rule, Put Full-Spectrum of Transit Benefits on the Table for “New Starts” Funding 2010

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