vastly

adverb

vast·​ly ˈvast-lē 

: to a very great or vast degree or extent : exceedingly

two people with vastly different tastes

a vastly more powerful bomb

But bluff and bravado … won against potential enemies who vastly outnumbered him.

—David Gilmour

It was the most eclectic—yet also vastly entertaining—evening of dance I have seen in a long time.

—Rita Felciano

Synonyms

• achingly
• almighty
• archly
• awful
• awfully
• badly
• beastly
• blisteringly
• bone
• colossally
• corking
• cracking
• damn
• damned
• dang
• deadly
• desperately
• eminently
• enormously
• especially
• ever
• exceedingly
• exceeding
• extra
• extremely
• fabulously
• fantastically
• far
• fiercely
• filthy
• frightfully
• full
• greatly
• heavily
• highly
• hugely
• immensely
• incredibly
• intensely
• jolly
• majorly
• mightily
• mighty
• monstrous [chiefly dialect]
• mortally
• most
• much
• particularly
• passing
• rattling
• real
• really
• right
• roaring
• roaringly
• seriously
• severely
• so
• sore
• sorely
• spanking
• specially
• stinking
• such
• super
• supremely
• surpassingly
• terribly
• that
• thumping
• too
• unco
• uncommonly
• very
• vitally
• way
• whacking
• wicked
• wildly

Examples of vastly in a Sentence

the team has vastly improved in the course of the season

vastly underestimated the cost of advertising the new product

Recent Examples on the Web

Thiel and Xiao are vastly different thinkers, but this only makes their commonalities more striking. —Chang Che, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2024

Firefly Atlas– Fireflies are vastly understudied even as their populations and diversity are declining. —Bob Hirshon, Discover Magazine, 20 Dec. 2024

President-elect Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress are expected to try to vastly limit the CFPB's powers. —Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 20 Dec. 2024

Older whitetails look vastly different than their younger cohorts. —Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 19 Dec. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1598, in the meaning defined above