vastly

adverb

vast·​ly ˈvast-lē 

: 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

It was the most eclectic—yet also vastly entertaining—evening of dance I have seen in a long time.

—Rita Felciano

Synonyms

• 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

Recent Examples on the Web

Rivian, like every other company that makes EVs, recently began offering access for its customers to Tesla’s vastly superior Supercharger network. —Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 15 Apr. 2024

At the same time, commercial aviation became not only vastly cheaper but also less and less likely to kill you. —Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024

But with the House voting in March to force ByteDance to sell its stake in TikTok, 11 former employees interviewed by Fortune tell a vastly different story. —Alexandra Sternlicht, Fortune, 15 Apr. 2024

Gordon Davidson, the founding artistic director of Center Theatre Group, built Los Angeles’ flagship theater organization in a vastly different era. —Charles McNulty, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Apr. 2024

That work of drama vastly exaggerated the heroes and villains of the trial and the town. —Lisa Grunwald, TIME, 12 Apr. 2024

Even though many life-saving drugs are vastly unaffordable to people who need them most, drug prices on the whole are only up 0.4% year-over-year. —Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 11 Apr. 2024

Clifford’s specialty is defense, and that’s an area the Hornets needed to vastly improve in after crashing spectacularly during the opening round of the NBA’s play-in tournament in consecutive seasons. —Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 4 Apr. 2024

The state Republican party has vastly trailed the Democrats in fundraising for all purposes this year, bringing in about $400,000 this year compared to the Democrats' nearly $5.4 million. —Rory Linnane, Journal Sentinel, 1 Apr. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1598, in the meaning defined above