: 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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This has led many facilities to shut down completely, or vastly reduce their operations.
—An Anonymous Contributor, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Oct. 2024
Xscape envisions using photonic equipment and cabling that can transmit and detect hundreds of different colors of light through a single cable, vastly increasing the amount of data that could flow through the network at any one time.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2024
Deep discounts: Aldi and its huge network of stores is able to vastly undercut producing prices, selling berries, vegetables and other mainstays for dollars under traditional prices offered by Ralphs, Vons or Albertsons.
—Samantha Gowen, Orange County Register, 21 Oct. 2024
The banks vastly increased their offer, from less than $4 billion to about $20 billion, Harris has said.
—Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2024
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An Anonymous Contributor, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Oct. 2024
Xscape envisions using photonic equipment and cabling that can transmit and detect hundreds of different colors of light through a single cable, vastly increasing the amount of data that could flow through the network at any one time.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2024
Deep discounts: Aldi and its huge network of stores is able to vastly undercut producing prices, selling berries, vegetables and other mainstays for dollars under traditional prices offered by Ralphs, Vons or Albertsons.
—Samantha Gowen, Orange County Register, 21 Oct. 2024
The banks vastly increased their offer, from less than $4 billion to about $20 billion, Harris has said.
—Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2024
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“Vastly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vastly. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.
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