Vast vs Jumble - What's the difference?
vast | jumble |
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
to mix or confuse
* Burton
* Tennyson
to meet or unite in a confused way
A mixture of unrelated things.
(British) Items for a rummage sale.
(archaic) A small, thin, sugared cake, usually ring-shaped.
As nouns the difference between vast and jumble
is that vast is west (compass point) while jumble is a mixture of unrelated things.As a verb jumble is
to mix or confuse.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
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* vastly * vastness * ultravastStatistics
*Anagrams
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Verb
(jumbl)- Why dost thou blend and jumble such inconsistencies together?
- Every clime and age jumbled together.