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| Main Entry: | pervasive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extensive |
| Synonyms: | all over the place, can't get away from, common, general, inescapable, omnipresent, permeating, pervading, prevalent, rife, ubiquitous, universal, wall-to-wall, widespread |
| Antonyms: | light, limited, narrow |
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| Main Entry: | extensive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | far-reaching, thorough |
| Synonyms: | all-inclusive, big, blanket*, boundless, broad, capacious, commodious, comprehensive, considerable, extended, far-flung*, general, great, hefty, huge, inclusive, indiscriminate, large, lengthy, long, major, pervasive, prevalent, roomy, sizable, spacious, sweeping, universal, unrestricted, vast, voluminous, wholesale, wide, widespread, across the board, all-encompassing, comprising, expanded, large-scale, protracted, scopic, scopious, unexclusive, wall to wall, wide-ranging |
| Antonyms: | limited, narrow, restricted, short, uncomprehensive |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | far-reaching |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | broad, widespread |
| Synonyms: | extensive, important, momentous, pervasive, significant, sweeping, wide, far-ranging |
| Antonyms: | incomprehensible, insignificant, narrow, trivial, unimportant |
| Main Entry: | omnipresent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | all-present |
| Synonyms: | everywhere, infinite, pervasive, ubiquitous, universal, pervading, ubiquitary |
| Notes: | omnipresent means present in all places at the same time; omniscient means infinitely wise or all-knowing; omnipotent means having unlimited power |
| Main Entry: | ubiquitous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ever-present |
| Synonyms: | everywhere, omnipresent, pervasive, universal, all-over, ubiquitary, wall-to-wall |
| Antonyms: | rare, scarce |
| Main Entry: | widespread |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extensive |
| Synonyms: | boundless, broad, common, comprehensive, current, diffuse, epidemic, far-flung, far-reaching, general, overall, pervasive, popular, prevailing, prevalent, public, rampant, regnant, rife, ruling, sweeping, universal, unlimited, unrestricted, wholesale, across the board, all over the place, on a large scale, outspread, pandemic, wall-to-wall |
| Antonyms: | concentrated, limited, local, narrow |
| Main Entry: | penetrating |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stinging, harsh |
| Synonyms: | biting, clear-cut, crisp, cutting, intrusive, pervasive, piercing, pointed, pungent, sharp, shrill, strong, trenchant, carrying, edged, entering, forcing, going through, infiltrating, ingoing, passing through, penetrant, permeating, puncturing |
| Antonyms: | blunt, dull |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Main Entry: | dimension |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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straight, universal, aberrant, actinoid, aligned, allover, ascending, back-and-forth, bidirectional, bilateral, bilevel, broad, centrifugal, centripetal, chockablock, circuitous, circumambient, clockwise, coast-to-coast, counterclockwise, cross-country, dangling, descending, dextral, diagonal, direct, directional, divergent, diverging, ectad, edgewise, encircling, equiangular, equilateral, extensive, falling, forrit, frontal, geocentric, geodesic, high, horizontal, inclined, indirect, infinite, isometric, isosceles, latitudinal, left, level, linear, long, long-distance, longitudinal, multilateral, nationwide, oblique, obtuse, out-of-bounds, outward, patulous, pervasive, prolate, protracted, quaquaversal, radial, radiant, radiating, rectilinear, retroflex, retrograde, reverse, right, ringed, rising, rotary, sinistral, statewide, straightforward, stratified, symmetrical, syntropic, tabular, tangential, three-dimensional, to-and-fro, two-dimensional, ubiquitous, uniaxial, unidirectional, unilateral, unsymmetrical, up-and-down, upright, vertical, wide, worldwide
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