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vast
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)
- Very large or wide (literally or figuratively).
- Very great in size, amount, degree, intensity, or especially extent.
- (obsolete) Waste; desert; desolate; lonely.
Translations
Noun
vast (plural vasts)
- (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.
- 1608, William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, I.i
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)
- 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)
- firm, fast, tight
- fixed, not moving or changing
- stuck, unable to get out
- (chemistry) in the solid state
- (botany) perennial
- (of a telephone) using a landline
Inflection
Derived terms
Descendants
- Afrikaans: vas
Adverb
vast
- surely, certainly
- Synonym: zeker
- (informal, sarcastically) sure, yeah, right
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
vast
- first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of vasten
- 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
- maybe, possibly
- recently, just, now
Derived terms
References
Livonian
Etymology
Akin to Finnish vasten
Preposition
vast
- against
Ludian
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *vasta.
Noun
vast
- 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)
- (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)
- vast
Declension
Related terms
- vastitate
Veps
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *vasta.
Noun
vast
- bundle (of switches for the sauna)
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ponderous
English
Etymology
Ultimately from Latin ponder?sus (“weighty”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?p?n.d??.?s/
- (US) IPA(key): /?p?n.d?.?s/
Adjective
ponderous (comparative more ponderous, superlative most ponderous)
- Heavy, massive, weighty.
- 1879, Julian Hawthorne, Archibald Malmaison, ch. 5:
- [H]e saw, at the end of a shallow embrasure, a ponderous door of dark wood, braced with iron.
- c. 1920, Edgar B. P. Darlington, The Circus Boys on the Flying Rings, ch. 4:
- The great elephant, when the cage was being placed, would, at a signal from its keeper, place its ponderous head against one side of the cage and push.
- 1879, Julian Hawthorne, Archibald Malmaison, ch. 5:
- (figuratively, by extension) Serious, onerous, oppressive.
- 1781, Samuel Johnson, Lives of the Poets, "Dryden":
- It was Dryden's opinion . . . that the drama required an alternation of comick and tragick scenes; and that it is necessary to mitigate, by alleviations of merriment, the pressure of ponderous events, and the fatigue of toilsome passions.
- 1845, Charles Dickens, Pictures From Italy, ch. 11:
- In its court-yard—worthy of the Castle of Otranto in its ponderous gloom—is a massive staircase.
- 1915, Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out, ch. 19:
- For the time, her own body was the source of all the life in the world, which tried to burst forth here—there—and was repressed now by Mr. Bax, now by Evelyn, now by the imposition of ponderous stupidity.
- 1781, Samuel Johnson, Lives of the Poets, "Dryden":
- Clumsy, unwieldy, or slow, especially due to weight.
- 1915, Samuel Hopkins Adams, Little Miss Grouch, ch. 10:
- Slowly, through an increasing glow that lighted land and water alike, the leviathan of the deep made her ponderous progress to the hill-encircled harbor.
- 1919, Virginia Woolf, "Kew Gardens":
- Following his steps . . . came two elderly women of the lower middle class, one stout and ponderous, the other rosy cheeked and nimble.
- 1915, Samuel Hopkins Adams, Little Miss Grouch, ch. 10:
- Dull, boring, tedious; long-winded in expression.
- 1863, Elizabeth Gaskell, "Cousin Phillis":
- Over supper the minister did unbend a little into one or two ponderous jokes.
- 1918, Gene Stratton-Porter, A Daughter Of The Land, ch. 2:
- [A]s certainly as any one said anything in her presence that she had occasion to repeat, she changed the wording to six-syllabled mouthfuls, delivered with ponderous circumlocution.
- 1863, Elizabeth Gaskell, "Cousin Phillis":
- (rare) Characterized by or associated with pondering.
- c. 1660, Thomas Manton, "Sermon Upon John III" in Works of Thomas Manton (2002 edition), ?ISBN, p. 464:
- Ponderous thoughts take hold of the heart; musing maketh the fire to burn, and steady sight hath the greatest influence upon us.
- 1804, The Literary Magazine and American Register, vol. 2, no. 7, p. 10:
- The acute and ponderous mind of Dr. Johnson was not always right in its decisions.
- 1850, Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, vol. 41, p. 242:
- They are the pleasantest of all companions, and perhaps the most affluent in correct opinions of men and things generally, although little addicted to ponderous consideration or deep research.
- c. 1660, Thomas Manton, "Sermon Upon John III" in Works of Thomas Manton (2002 edition), ?ISBN, p. 464:
- (obsolete) Dense.
Synonyms
- (heavy, massive): heavy, massive
- (serious, onerous): oppressive, serious
Derived terms
- ponderously
- ponderousness
Translations
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