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vasty

vasty adjective: vast.

Adjective

vasty (comparative vastier, superlative vastiest)

  1. (archaic, literary) vast
    • I can call spirits from the vasty deep.c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
    • […] the pattern of life it offers has a homely grace. It reminds you of a placid rivulet, meandering smoothly through green pastures and shaded by pleasant trees, till at last it falls into the vasty sea; […]1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 7”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC

Forms of vasty

comparativevastier
superlativevastiest

Words formed from vasty

Questions about vasty

What does vasty mean?
Vasty means vast.
What part of speech is vasty?
Vasty is an adjective.

Words near vasty in the dictionary

  1. vasts
  2. vastu
  3. vastus
  4. vastus externus
  5. vastus lateralis
  6. vasty
  7. Vasu
  8. Vasudeva
  9. Vasudevan
  10. Vasudevans
  11. Vasudha

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