Word Study
vastly
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adverbial vastly has 1 sense
- vastly(r = adv.all) immensely - to an exceedingly great extent or degree; "He had vastly overestimated his resources"; "was immensely more important to the project as a scientist than as an administrator"
CIDE DICTIONARY
vastly, adv.
To a vast extent or degree; very greatly; immensely. Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
vastly
abroad, almost entirely, broadly, colossally, considerably, enormously, exceedingly, extensively, extremely, far and near, far and wide, gigantically, greatly, hugely, immensely, infinitely, on all sides, on every side, prodigiously, right and left, stupendously, substantially, titanically, tremendously, very much, widely, worlds
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