vastly

Adverb

Meaning

To a vast extent or degree; very greatly; immensely.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

immensely extremely exceedingly highly supremely tremendously titanic much real far very most particularly especially largely
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Antonyms

just little rather comparatively slightly somewhat
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Phrases with the word

vastly different vastly varying be vastly different vastly large

Examples

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. H. L. Mencken

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue. John Kenneth Galbraith

It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played. Ludwig Wittgenstein

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent. Sophia Loren

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know. André Maurois

The Anarchists never have claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its results are vastly preferable to those that follow authority. Benjamin Tucker

Close letter words and terms

vastiness vastitude vastity vastly different vastly varying vastness