Meanings
- superlativeSuperlative form of vast: most vast.
Canada is one of the world's vastest countries, and one of the greatest railway nations with nearly 50,000km (31,000 miles) of track.
2025 December 10, Vitali Vitaliev, “Meals on wheels”, in RAIL, number 1050, page 681 more example
The Martian astronomers—for there are astronomers on Mars, although they are very different beings from men—were naturally profoundly interested by these things. They saw them from their own standpoint of course. "Considering the mass and temperature of the missile that was flung through our solar system into the sun," one wrote, "it is astonishing what a little damage the earth, which it missed so narrowly, has sustained. All the familiar continental markings and the masses of the seas remain intact, and indeed the only difference seems to be a shrinkage of the white discolouration (supposed to be frozen water) round either pole." Which only shows how small the vastest of human catastrophes may seem, at a distance of a few million miles.
1897, H. G. Wells, The Star (Science Fiction)
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