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Diverse vs Vast - What's the difference?

diverse | vast |

As adjectives the difference between diverse and vast

is that diverse is consisting of many different elements; various while vast is very large or wide (literally or figuratively).

As an adverb diverse

is in different directions; diversely.

As a noun vast is

a vast space.

As an acronym VAST is

visual audio sensory theater.

diverse

English

Alternative forms

* divers (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Consisting of many different elements; various.
  • Different; unlike; dissimilar; distinct; separate.
  • * J. Edwards
    • The word is used in a sense very diverse from its original import.
  • * R. Browning
    • Our roads are diverse : farewell, love! said she.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= Katrina G. Claw
    • , title= Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm , volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.}}
  • Capable of various forms; multiform.
  • * Ben Jonson
    • Eloquence is a great and diverse thing.

    Antonyms

    * (l)

    Related terms

    * (l) * (l)

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In different directions; diversely.

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    vast

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Very large or wide (literally or figuratively).
    • The Sahara desert is vast .
    There is a vast difference between them.
  • Very great in size, amount, degree, intensity, or especially extent.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
    • , author=Anna Lena Phillips , title=Sneaky Silk Moths , volume=100, issue=2, page=172 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=Last spring, the periodical cicadas emerged across eastern North America. Their vast numbers and short above-ground life spans inspired awe and irritation in humans—and made for good meals for birds and small mammals.}}
  • (obsolete) Waste; desert; desolate; lonely.
  • * William Shakespeare, the Life and Death of Richard the Third Act I, scene IV:
    • the empty, vast , and wandering air

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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

    • Derived terms

    * vastly * vastness * ultravast

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