widespread
adjEtymology
From wide + spread.
- derived from *(s)per-✻
- inherited from *spraidijaną✻
- inherited from sprǣdan
- inherited from spreden
Definitions
Affecting, or found throughout, a large area (e.g. the entire land or body)
Affecting, or found throughout, a large area (e.g. the entire land or body); broad in extent; widely diffused.
- widespread belief
- widespread criticism
- widespread acceptance
Spread far apart.
- Women with knee-length silk stockings, sitting with widespread legs on sunwashed green benches
The neighborhood
- synonymextensive
- synonympervasive
- synonymprevalent
- synonymubiquitous
- synonymuniversal
- synonymcommon
- synonymdisseminated
- synonymfar-flung
- synonympredominant
- synonymprevailing
- synonymregnant
- synonymrife
- antonymlimited
- antonymcontained
- antonymendemic
- antonymfew and far between
- antonymfocused
- antonymrare
- antonymuncommon
- neighborcurrent
- neighborenphytotic
- neighborenzootic
- neighborepidemic
- neighborhyperendemic
- neighborpandemic
- neighborpanphytotic
- neighborpanzootic
- neighborpenetrating
- neighborpermeating
- neighborpervading
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at widespread. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at widespread. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
6 hops · closes at widespread
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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