Meanings
comparative more vastly · superlative most vastly
- Greatly, in a vast manner.
After Trump spoke with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in April 2017, the two sides offered vastly different accounts of what was discussed.
2018 July 24, Kaitlan Collins, “Exclusive: White House stops announcing calls with foreign leaders”, in CNN1 more example
“I have visited my quarters, and find them very comfortable.[…]Steerage is like everything else maritime[…]vastly improved since Robert Louis Stevenson took his trip third class to New York.”
1913, Robert Barr, chapter 1, in Lord Stranleigh AbroadSynonyms: exceedingly, extremely, highly, immensely, supremely, tremendously
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbGreatly, in a vast manner.
More synonyms by meaning
adverbto an exceedingly great extent or degree
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Czech ohromně
- ohromněgreatly, in a vast manner
Esperanto treege, vaste
- treegegreatly, in a vast manner
- vastegreatly, in a vast manner
French beaucoup
- beaucoupgreatly, in a vast manner
German erheblich, ungeheuer
- erheblichgreatly, in a vast manner
- ungeheuergreatly, in a vast manner
Slovak ohromne
- ohromnegreatly, in a vast manner
Spanish inmensamente
- inmensamentegreatly, in a vast manner
Cite this entry
vastly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/vastly
“vastly.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/vastly. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “vastly,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/vastly.
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