different between vast vs robust

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)

English

Etymology

From Latin r?bustus, from r?bur, r?bus (“strength, hard timber, oak”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /????b?st/, /???b?st/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?o??b?st/
• Rhymes: -?st
• Hyphenation: ro?bust

Adjective

robust (comparative robuster or more robust, superlative robustest or most robust) (see usage notes)

1. Evincing strength and health; strong.

   He was a robust man of six feet four.

   robust health

   A robust wall was put up.

   • 1869, Anthony Trollope, Phineas Finn

     She was stronger, larger, more robust physically than he had hitherto conceived.

2. Violent; rough; rude.
3. Requiring strength or vigor

   robust employment

4. Sensible (of intellect etc.); straightforward, not given to or confused by uncertainty or subtlety
5. (systems engineering) Designed or evolved in such a way as to be resistant to total failure despite partial damage.
6. (software engineering) Resistant or impervious to failure regardless of user input or unexpected conditions.
7. (statistics) Not greatly influenced by errors in assumptions about the distribution of sample errors.

Usage notes

• "More" and "most robust" are much more common than the forms ending in "-er" or "-est".

Derived terms

• robustness

Translations

See also

• Robust statistics on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• brotus, or bust, turbos

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin r?bustus, first attested circa 1400.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ru?bust/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ro?bust/

Adjective

robust (feminine robusta, masculine plural robusts or robustos, feminine plural robustes)

1. robust (evincing strength and health)

   Synonyms: fort, vigorós

Derived terms

• robustament
• robustesa

Further reading

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

References

German

Etymology

From Latin r?bustus, from r?bur, r?bus (“strength, hard timber, oak”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?o?b?st/
• Hyphenation: ro?bust

Adjective

robust (comparative robuster, superlative am robustesten)

1. robust

Declension

Derived terms

• Robustheit

Further reading

• “robust” in Duden online

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin robustus

Adjective

robust (neuter singular robust, definite singular and plural robuste)

1. robust, sturdy

References

• “robust” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin robustus

Adjective

robust (neuter singular robust, definite singular and plural robuste)

1. robust, sturdy

References

• “robust” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Etymology

From French robuste.

Adjective

robust m or n (feminine singular robust?, masculine plural robu?ti, feminine and neuter plural robuste)

1. robust

Declension