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overvast en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /əʊvəbɜːst/ (UK)
• /ˈəʊvəbɝst/ (US)

Etymology

From over- + vast.

Meanings

1. (rare) Overly vast.
   • The first two days of the camp were slightly overvast and 1 windy, but the remaining period was true autumn weather, which allowed full advantage to be taken of our open-air holidays. 1905, Tasmanian Field Naturalists' Club, Easter Camp, Tasmanian Field Naturalists' Club, page 11:
   • The nation now needs to overcome its happy imbalance of funds, needs to get rid of its overvast surplus of gold and foreign‐currency reserves. 1973 July 15, Faubion Bowers, “2½ million tourists at large”, in nytimes.com:
   • Too many dollars chasing too few goods is never a healthy situation. Instead of the bracing discipline of dedicated, hard thought applied to difficult research problems, a surfeit of funds has a tendency to cause researchers, even with the best of intentions, to divert their energies into fields that use large and expensive items of equipment, into sometimes overvast and costly experimental undertakings. 1962, United States, Congress, Congressional Record July 9-19, 1962: Vol 108, Superintendent of Government Documents, page 13894:

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