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单词 vasty
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vastyadj.

/ˈvɑːsti//ˈvasti/
Etymology: < vast adj. and adv. + -y suffix1.
Vast, immense. (In modern use after Shakespeare.)
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the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [adjective] > of vast extent
broadOE
sideOE
wideOE
largec1230
spaciousa1382
unridea1425
amplea1492
well-spreadc1540
main1548
overreaching1579
widespread1582
spacious1587
wide-spreading1587
scopeful1598
vasty1598
scopious1599
vast1600
worldwide1602
spaceful1621
dimensious1632
voluminousa1661
extensive1706
sheety1748
sweeping1772
extended1779
expansive1806
wide-spreaded1820
heaven-wide1835
spanless1847
rangy1898
1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iii. i. 51 I can cal spirits from the vasty deepe. View more context for this quotation
1605 Famous Hist. Capt. Stukeley sig. K3v Which makes me..sorrow that thy valour should be sunke, In such a vasty vnknowne sea of Armes.
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 330 I saw in a white-sandy ground divers vastie, craggie stones of strange formes.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) ii. iv. 105 The poore Soules, for whom this hungry Warre Opens his vastie Iawes. View more context for this quotation
1792 R. Cumberland Calvary 182 Noah can tell How all the earth with violence was fill'd, Or e'er the fountains of the vasty deep Were broken up.1845 R. Ford Hand-bk. Travellers in Spain I. i. 77 The feudal castle, the vasty Escorial, the rock-built alcazar.1867 E. F. Bull Ecce Coelum i. 10 Not a whisper, not a rustle, through all the vasty dome.figurative.1848 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 3) 63 Yon pretty little star Shines on a vasty falsehood.1885 W. Pater Marius the Epicurean II. 48 Those vasty conceptions of the later Greek philosophy.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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