Illimitable vs Vast - What's the difference?
illimitable | vast | Related terms |
Impervious to limitation, without limit.
* 1909 , Jack London,
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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
As adjectives the difference between illimitable and vast
is that illimitable is impervious to limitation, without limit while vast is very large or wide (literally or figuratively).As a noun vast is
a vast space.As an acronym VAST is
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English
Adjective
(en adjective)- What a tremendous affair it was, the world of Homer, with its indeterminate boundaries, vast regions, and immeasurable distances. The Mediterranean and the Euxine were illimitable stretches of ocean waste over which years could be spent in endless wandering.
Synonyms
* infinite * limitless * unlimitedAntonyms
* limitableDerived terms
* illimitability * illimitablySee also
* inimitablevast
English
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