Abysmal vs Vast - What's the difference?
abysmal | vast | Synonyms |
(now, rare) Pertaining to, or resembling an abyss; unending; profound; fathomless; immeasurable.
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(figurative, colloquial) Bottomless; extremely bad.
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Very large or wide (literally or figuratively).
Very great in size, amount, degree, intensity, or especially extent.
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(obsolete) Waste; desert; desolate; lonely.
* William Shakespeare, the Life and Death of Richard the Third Act I, scene IV:
(poetic) A vast space.
* 1608': they have seemed to be together, though absent, shook hands, as over a '''vast , and embraced, as it were, from the ends of opposed winds. — William Shakespeare, ''The Winter's Tale , I.i
Abysmal is a synonym of vast.
As an adjective abysmal
is (now|rare) pertaining to, or resembling an abyss; unending; profound; fathomless; immeasurable .As a noun vast is
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English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Geology gives one the same abysmal extent of time that astronomy does of space.
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Usage notes
* Nouns to which "abysmal" is often applied: ignorance, record, performance, poverty, conditions, quality, perplexity, result, and failure.References
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* *vast
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Adjective
(en-adj)- The Sahara desert is vast .
- There is a vast difference between them.
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- the empty, vast , and wandering air