Unfathomable vs Vast - What's the difference?
unfathomable | vast | Related terms |
Impossible to fathom or understand; incomprehensible.
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Difficult to penetrate.
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 unfathomable and vast
is that unfathomable is impossible to fathom or understand; incomprehensible while vast is very large or wide (literally or figuratively).As a noun vast is
a vast space.As an acronym VAST is
visual audio sensory theater.unfathomable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The sheer numbers they attacked with were unfathomable .
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* (l) * (l) * (l)vast
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
