Adjacent Words

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: widely circulated or diffused; "a widespread doctrine"; "widespread fear of nuclear war"
2: distributed over a considerable extent; "far-flung trading operations"; "the West's far-flung mountain ranges"; "widespread nuclear fallout" [syn: far-flung, widespread]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1582 1. widely diffused or prevalent <widespread public interest> 2. widely extended or spread out <low, widespread hood and fenders — Time> <a widespread erosion surface — C. B. Hitchcock>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. widely distributed or disseminated.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Widespread Wide"spread`, a. Spread to a great distance; widely extended; extending far and wide; as, widespread wings; a widespread movement.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. Something that is widespread exists or happens over a large area, or to a great extent. There is widespread support for the new proposals... Food shortages are widespread. = extensive ADJ

Moby Thesaurus

accepted, ample, amplitudinous, broad, broadcast, capacious, commodious, conformable, consuetudinary, conventional, current, customary, deep, deltoid, diffuse, discrete, dispersed, dispread, disseminated, dissipated, distributed, established, everyday, expansive, extended, extending, extensive, familiar, fan-shape, fan-shaped, fanlike, fanned, fanning, far-embracing, far-extending, far-flung, far-flying, far-going, far-ranging, far-reaching, flabelliform, flared, flaring, generally accepted, indiscriminate, infinite, large-scale, liberal, normal, obtaining, open, ordinary, outspread, outstretched, patulous, popular, prescribed, prescriptive, prevalent, rampant, received, regnant, regular, regulation, rife, roomy, ruling, scattered, set, spacious, sparse, splay, splayed, splaying, sporadic, spraddled, spraddling, sprangled, sprangling, sprawling, sprawly, spread, spreading, standard, stock, straggling, straggly, stretched-out, strewn, strown, sweeping, time-honored, traditional, unfolded, usual, vast, voluminous, wholesale, wide, wide-extended, wide-extending, wide-open, wide-ranging, wide-reaching, wide-stretching, wonted