overvast

overvast

English

Alternative forms

• over-vast

Etymology

over- +‎ vast

Adjective

overvast (comparative more overvast, superlative most overvast)

1. (rare)Overly vast.
   • 1905, Tasmanian Field Naturalists' Club, Easter Camp‎, Tasmanian Field Naturalists' Club, page 11:

     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.

   • 1962, United States, Congress, Congressional Record July 9-19, 1962: Vol 108‎, Superintendent of Government Documents, page 13894:

     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.

   • 1973 July 15, Faubion Bowers, “2½ million tourists at large”, in nytimes.com‎:

     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.