vastly
adverbDefinition of vastly
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Synonyms & Antonyms for vastly
Synonyms
achingly, almighty, archly, awful, awfully, badly, beastly, blisteringly, bone, colossally, corking, cracking, damn, damned, dang, deadly, desperately, eminently, enormously, especially, ever, exceedingly (also 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
Antonyms
little, negligibly, nominally, slightly, somewhat
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These two teams are vastly different than the ones that lifted the trophy during their respective championship years but that doesn’t mean their single-elimination game won’t be incredibly entertaining. — Kellen Becoats, SI.com, "Battle of Former Champs, Struggling Mercury vs. Surging Sky Headline Playoff's 1st Round," 9 Sep. 2019 The role of insurance companies would be vastly reduced. — Akilah Johnson, ProPublica, "Medicare-for-All Is Not Medicare, and Not Really for All. So What Does It Actually Mean?," 6 Sep. 2019 The roughly 200 people who attended it were vastly outnumbered not just by the almost 1,000 counter-protesters, but also by the police keeping the groups apart. — The Economist, "Straight pride struggles to catch on," 5 Sep. 2019 But that figure was vastly larger than the 880 devices the FBI had cited a year before, and a Washington Post investigation found that the number of inaccessible devices in 2017 was actually about 1,200 according to an FBI internal estimate. — Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, "Barr says the US needs encryption backdoors to prevent “going dark.” Um, what?," 4 Aug. 2019 Among the candidates, Siplin has the vastly larger war chest with $101,625 in the bank through June 30, receiving support from numerous developer and business interests. — Ryan Gillespie, orlandosentinel.com, "Rare open seat on Orlando City Council draws three so far," 26 July 2019 The small protest mirrored a vastly larger one in San Juan, the island's capital, on the same day. — Julio Ojeda-zapata, Twin Cities, "Puerto Ricans march on Rice Park to demand resignation of island’s governor," 22 July 2019 Unlike first generation nuclear weapons, which rely on nuclear fission, thermonuclear weapons involve a second stage in the design that fuses hydrogen nuclei, creating a vastly larger explosion. — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, "North Korea's Latest Nuclear Test Was More Powerful Than We Thought," 5 June 2019 As recently as 1991, China’s economy was smaller than Russia’s, despite its vastly larger population. — Yaroslav Trofimov, WSJ, "The New Beijing-Moscow Axis," 1 Feb. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'vastly.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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