(adjective) : vastus, a, um, cf.: vanus, vacuus
* Empty, unoccupied, i.e. waste, desert.
* Lit. (so rare but class.; syn.: vacuus, desertus): genus agrorum propter pestilentiam vastum atque desertum,Cic. Agr. 2, 26, 69: lex erat lata vasto ac relicto foro,id. Sest. 24, 53: agrum vastum ac desertum habere,Liv. 28, 11, 10: vasta ac deserta urbs,id. 24, 3, 11; 28, 7, 12: vasta incendiis ruinisque urbs, id. 5, 53, 1: mons vastus ab naturā et humano cultu,uncultivated,Sall. J. 48, 3: urbs a defensoribus vasta,without,Liv. 23, 30, 7 (al. ex conj. vacua).
* Trop. (the fig. taken from tracts of country lying waste or untilled), uncultivated, unpolished, rude, rough, harsh: vultu motuque corporis vasti atque agrestes,Cic. de Or. 1, 25, 115: vastus homo atque foedus,id. ib. 1, 25, 117: vasti quidam et insubidi,Gell. 19, 9, 9: fugiemus crebras vocalium concursiones, quae vastam atque hiantem orationem reddunt, ut hoc est: baccae aeneae amoenissimae impendebant,Auct. Her. 4, 12, 18: omnia vasta ac temeraria esse,Liv. 24, 48, 7: littera vastior,too harsh-sounding,Cic. Or. 45, 153.
* Transf.
* Desolate, deserted: abs te viduae et vastae virgines sunt, made lonely, Enn. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 1, 52 (Trag. v. 279 Vahl.): dies per silentium vastus,Tac. A. 3, 4.
* Wasted by destruction, laid waste, ravaged, devastated, destroyed (rare; cf. vastatus): fit vasta Troja,Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 130: jam hanc urbem ferro vastam faciet Peleus, Att. ap. Fest. pp. 372 and 373: haec ego vasta dabo,Verg. A. 9, 323: nec solum modo vastum hosti relictum, sed castellis etiam vicisque illatus ignis,Liv. 10, 12, 8.
* With the predom. idea of extent, vast, immense, enormous, huge, monstrous (syn.: ingens, immanis).
* Of size: jamque fere pulvis ad caelum vasta videtur, Enn. ap. Non. 217, 11 (Ann. v. 286 Vahl.): immani et vastae insidens beluae,Cic. Rep. 2, 40, 67: vasta et immanis belua,id. Div. 1, 24, 49; cf.: vastissimae beluae,id. Rep. 2, 26, 49: elephanto beluarum nulla prudentior; ad figuram quae vastior?id. N. D. 1, 35, 97: summa erat vasto atque aperto mari, difficultas navigandi,Caes. B. G. 3, 12; cf.: in vastissimo atque apertissimo Oceano,id. ib. 3, 9, 7: fossa vastissima,Cic. Rep. 2, 6, 11: solitudines,id. ib. 2, 6, 19: campi,Verg. A. 3, 13: Charybdis,Lucr. 1, 722: antiquus crater, quem vastum vastior ipse Sustulit Aegides,Ov. M. 12, 236: antrum,Verg. A. 1, 52: hiatus speluncae,id. ib. 6, 237: suspectus turris,id. ib. 9, 530: manus,Ov. F. 2, 322: arma,Verg. A. 10, 768: corpus,Col. 7, 12, 3.
* Transf., of degree, etc., immense, enormous, prodigious, vast, etc.: iter,i.e. on the vast ocean,Ov. M. 14, 438: certamen,Verg. A. 12, 553: impetus,Hor. C. 4, 14, 30: pugnae Cannensis clades vastissima,Gell. 5, 17, 5: tempestas,Col. 2, 20, 5; cf.: vapores vastissimi,id. 2, 20, 1: clamor,Verg. A. 10, 716; Ov. M. 12, 494: murmur,Verg. A. 1, 245: latratus,Col. 7, 12, 3: tonitru,Val. Fl. 1, 617: pondus,Verg. A. 5, 447; Ov. H. 9, 88.
* Trop.: vastus animus,i.e. insatiable,Sall. C. 5, 4.—Rarely with abstr. nouns: quam vasta potentia nostra est,Ov. M. 2, 520: varia vastaque scientia,Col. 1, pr. 28: nefas,Sen. Herc. Oet. 767.—Adv.: vastē.
* (Acc. to vastus, I. B.) Rudely, harshly: loqui non aspere, non vaste, non rustice, etc.,Cic. de Or. 3, 12, 45: ne vastius diducantur verba,id. ib. 3, 43, 172.
* (Acc. to II. B.) Widely, vastly, immensely, violently, enormously: vaste cedentia litora,Mel. 1, 1, 4: vastius insurgens decimae ruit impetus undae,Ov. M. 11, 530: vastius podagra correpti,Scrib. Comp. 107.