: to a very great or vast degree or extent : exceedingly
two people with vastly different tastes
a vastly more powerful bomb
But bluff and bravado … won against potential enemies who vastly outnumbered him.—
David Gilmour
David GilmourIt was the most eclectic—yet also vastly entertaining—evening of dance I have seen in a long time.—Rita Felciano
Rita FelcianoSynonyms
- achingly
- almighty
- archly
- awful
- awfully
- badly
- beastly
- blisteringly
- bone
- colossally
- corking
- cracking
- damn
- damned
- dang
- deadly
- desperately
- eminently
- enormously
- especially
- ever
- exceedingly
- exceeding
- extra
- extremely
- fabulously
- fantastically
- far
- fiercely
- filthy
- frightfully
- full
- greatly
- heavily
- highly
- hugely
- immensely
- incredibly
- intensely
- jolly
- majorly
- mightily
- mighty
- monstrous [chiefly dialect]
- mortally
- most
- much
- particularly
- passing
- rattling
- real
- really
- right
- roaring
- roaringly
- seriously
- severely
- so
- sore
- sorely
- spanking
- specially
- stinking
- such
- super
- supremely
- surpassingly
- terribly
- that
- thumping
- too
- unco
- uncommonly
- very
- vitally
- way
- whacking
- wicked
- wildly
Examples of vastly in a Sentence
the team has vastly improved in the course of the season
vastly underestimated the cost of advertising the new product
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Discover Magazine, 15 Nov. 2024
Trump's announcement Tuesday brings together two of Trump's highest-profile surrogates from the tech industry, who have vastly different backgrounds.
—David Ingram, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
Half say the country's seriously off on the wrong track -- still a lot, but vastly fewer than among Trump supporters.
—Gary Langer, ABC News, 5 Nov. 2024
What ProPublica Reporters Will Be Watching on Election Day
Our data analysis showed that the number of migrants crossing the southwest border into the United States was not vastly higher than in other periods of history.
—Stephen Engelberg, ProPublica, 5 Nov. 2024
See all Example Sentences for vastly
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“Vastly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vastly. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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