: 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
David GilmourIt was the most eclectic—yet also vastly entertaining—evening of dance I have seen in a long time.—Rita Felciano
Rita FelcianoExamples 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
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But that was a vastly different Mets team, one not fully imagined by David Stearns the way this team so clearly is, a hybrid of his personnel decisions and the ones of his predecessor, Billy Eppler.
—Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 2 May 2026
That there is no need to fill consciousness at all moments with the artificial urgencies of screens, of emails, of texts, of social media; the real urgencies of the bright-eyed woodpecker above my head will always be vastly more interesting.
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At the same time, the strategy for a runoff with a smaller pool of voters is vastly different from a primary.
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Millwall must win to capitalise on any points dropped by Ipswich, thanks to that vastly inferior goal difference, while Middlesbrough’s hopes of gatecrashing the top two are also dependent on securing all three points.
—Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 1 May 2026
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Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 2 May 2026
That there is no need to fill consciousness at all moments with the artificial urgencies of screens, of emails, of texts, of social media; the real urgencies of the bright-eyed woodpecker above my head will always be vastly more interesting.
—Literary Hub, 1 May 2026
At the same time, the strategy for a runoff with a smaller pool of voters is vastly different from a primary.
—James Osborne, Houston Chronicle, 1 May 2026
Millwall must win to capitalise on any points dropped by Ipswich, thanks to that vastly inferior goal difference, while Middlesbrough’s hopes of gatecrashing the top two are also dependent on securing all three points.
—Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 1 May 2026
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“Vastly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vastly. Accessed 5 May. 2026.
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