VASTLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vastly mean? 

• VASTLY (adverb)
  The adverb VASTLY has 1 sense:

1. to an exceedingly great extent or degree

  Familiarity information: VASTLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VASTLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To an exceedingly great extent or degree

Synonyms:

immensely; vastly

Context example:

was immensely more important to the project as a scientist than as an administrator

Pertainym:

vast (unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope)

 Context examples 

But I should be vastly sorry to have to live there.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He had accomplished a distance vastly greater than a bachelorship of arts, or a dozen bachelorships.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I am sure he will be vastly happy to oblige you, and will save all the best of the covies for you.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

So Mrs. Thorpe said; she was vastly pleased at your all going.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

You will not mention the matter to Fanny, however, for though I have broke it to her, and she bears it vastly well,—she will not like to hear it much talked of.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Since the hearts of mice and other small animals are vastly different from the human organ, CAVD research has long been hampered by a lack of good animal models.

(New Hope for Stopping An Understudied Heart Disease in Its Tracks, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

But even in the minute that had elapsed the number of the rats had vastly increased.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The first spray is made of molecularly grafted polymers, specifically polydimethylsiloxane silicone, as resembling human hairs — though vastly thinner — once it has dried on the target surface, which makes the surface very smooth.

(Materials scientists invent new coating for self-cleaning, water-efficient toilets, Wikinews)

The deep biosphere: an underground ecosystem of bacteria and multi-celled organisms vastly outweighing all of human life on the surface.

(Researchers Create New Model of Ecosystem Hidden Beneath Earth, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Scientists at the University of Cambridge studying perovskite materials for next-generation solar cells and flexible LEDs have discovered that they can be more efficient when their chemical compositions are less ordered, vastly simplifying production processes and lowering cost.

(‘Messy’ production of perovskite material increases solar cell efficiency, University of Cambridge)