different between thorough vs vast

English

Alternative forms

• thoro (informal)

Etymology

From Middle English thoru?, þoru?, from Old English þuruh, a byform of Old English þurh, whence comes English through. The adjective derives from the preposition and adverb. The word developed a syllabic form in cases where the word was fully stressed: when it was used as an adverb, adjective, or noun, and less commonly when used as a preposition.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?????/, /??????/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /????o?/, /????o?/
• (accents without the hurry–furry merger)
• (accents with the hurry–furry merger)
• Rhymes: -?r?

Adjective

thorough (comparative more thorough, superlative most thorough)

1. Painstaking and careful not to miss or omit any detail.

   The Prime Minister announced a thorough investigation into the death of a father of two in police custody.

   He is the most thorough worker I have ever seen.

   The infested house needs a thorough cleansing before it will be inhabitable.

2. Utter; complete; absolute.
   • 1925-29, Mahadev Desai (translator), M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Part I, chapter xviii^[1]:

     I was elected to the Executive Committee of the Vegetarian Society, and made it a point to attend every one of its meetings, but I always felt tongue-tied. Dr. Oldfield once said to me, 'You talk to me quite all right, but why is it that you never open your lips at a committee meeting? You are a drone.' I appreciated the banter. The bees are ever busy, the drone is a thorough idler. And it was not a little curious that whilst others expressed their opinions at these meetings, I sat quite silent. Not that I never felt tempted to speak. But I was at a loss to know how to express myself. All the rest of the members appeared to me to be better informed than I. Then it often happened that just when I had mustered up courage to speak, a fresh subject would be started. This went on for a long time.

Synonyms

• (detailed): comprehensive, rigorous, scrupulous; see also Thesaurus:meticulous or Thesaurus:comprehensive
• (utter; complete; absolute): downright, outright, unmitigated; see also Thesaurus:total

Derived terms

• thoroughbred
• thoroughgoing
• thoroughly
• thoroughness

Translations

Preposition

thorough

1. (obsolete) Through. [9th-19th c.]
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, V. i. 109:

     You are contented to be led in triumph / Thorough the streets of Rome?

Noun

thorough (plural thoroughs)

1. (Britain, dialect) A furrow between two ridges, to drain off the surface water.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

English

Etymology

From Middle French vaste, from Latin vastus (“void, immense”). Doublet of fada.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: väst, IPA^(key): /v??st/
• (US) IPA^(key): /væst/
• Rhymes: -??st

Adjective

vast (comparative vaster or more vast, superlative vastest or most vast)

1. Very large or wide (literally or figuratively).

2. Very great in size, amount, degree, intensity, or especially extent.
3. (obsolete) Waste; desert; desolate; lonely.

Translations

Noun

vast (plural vasts)

1. (poetic) A vast space.
   • 1608, William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, I.i

     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.

Derived terms

Anagrams

• ATVs, VSAT, tavs, vats

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin v?stus.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?vast/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?bast/

Adjective

vast (feminine vasta, masculine plural vasts or vastos, feminine plural vastes)

1. vast, wide

Related terms

• vastitud

Further reading

• “vast” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “vast” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “vast” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “vast” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?st/
• Hyphenation: vast
• Rhymes: -?st

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch vast, from Old Dutch fast, from Proto-Germanic *fastuz.

Adjective

vast (comparative vaster, superlative meest vast or vastst)

1. firm, fast, tight
2. fixed, not moving or changing

3. stuck, unable to get out

4. (chemistry) in the solid state

5. (botany) perennial

6. (of a telephone) using a landline

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: vas

Adverb

vast

1. surely, certainly

   Synonym: zeker

2. (informal, sarcastically) sure, yeah, right

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

vast

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of vasten
2. imperative of vasten

Estonian

Etymology

Of Finno-Mordvinic or Finno-Volgaic origin. Cognate to Finnish vasta, Votic vassa, Northern Sami vuostá, Erzya ??????? (vastoms, “to meet; to receive”), Moksha ????? (vasta, “place; distance”) and possibly Western Mari ???????? (?aštareš, “against; across”).

Adverb

vast

1. maybe, possibly
2. recently, just, now

Derived terms

References

Livonian

Etymology

Akin to Finnish vasten

Preposition

vast

1. against

Ludian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *vasta.

Noun

vast

1. bundle (of switches for the sauna)

Romani

Etymology

Perhaps from Sanskrit ???? (hásta), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *??ástas, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *???ástas, from Proto-Indo-European *??és-to- (“hand”) < *??es-. Compare Punjabi ??? (hatth), Hindi ??? (h?th), Bengali ??? (hat); compare also Persian ???? (dast).

Noun

vast m (plural vasta)

1. (anatomy) hand

Romanian

Etymology

From French vaste, from Latin vastus.

Adjective

vast m or n (feminine singular vast?, masculine plural va?ti, feminine and neuter plural vaste)

1. vast

Declension

Related terms

• vastitate

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *vasta.

Noun

vast

1. bundle (of switches for the sauna)