| Main Entry: | rife |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | overflowing |
Synonyms: |
abounding, abundant, alive, common, current, epidemic, extensive, frequent, general, many, multitudinous, numerous, pandemic, plentiful, popular, prevailing, prevalent, profuse, raging, rampant, regnant, replete, ruling, swarming, teeming, thronged, ubiquitous, universal, widespread |
Antonyms: |
low, scarce |
| Main Entry: | alive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | being active, full of life |
Synonyms: |
abounding, alert, animated, awake, brisk, bustling, cheerful, dynamic, eager, energetic, lively, overflowing, quick, ready, replete, rife, sharp, spirited, sprightly, spry, stirring, swarming, teeming, vigorous, vital, vivacious, zestful |
Antonyms: |
dispirited, dull, lifeless, morose, sluggish, spiritless |
| Main Entry: | current |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | contemporary; common |
Synonyms: |
accepted, accustomed, afoot, circulating, common knowledge, customary, cutting-edge, doing, existent, extant, fad, fashionable, general, going around, hot*, in, in circulation, in progress, in the mainstream, in the news, in use, in vogue, instant, leading-edge, mod, modern, now*, on front burner, ongoing, popular, present, present-day, prevailing, prevalent, rampant, regnant, rife, ruling, state-of-the-art, swinging, topical, trendy, up-to-date, widespread |
Antonyms: |
antiquated, old, old-fashioned, past, uncommon, uncontemporary |
| Main Entry: | epidemic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | widespread |
Synonyms: |
catching, communicable, contagious, endemic, general, infectious, pandemic, prevailing, prevalent, rampant, rife, sweeping, wide-ranging |
| Notes: | an endemic is a disease that is constantly present to a greater or lesser degree in people of a certain class or in people living in a particular location; an epidemic is a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease that infects many people at the same time; a pandemic is an epidemic that is geographically widespread occurring throughout a region or even throughout the world |
Antonyms: |
limited |
| Main Entry: | many |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | profuse, abundant |
Synonyms: |
abounding, alive with, bounteous, bountiful, copious, countless, crowded, divers, frequent, innumerable, legion, lousy with, manifold, multifarious, multifold, multiplied, multitudinous, myriad, no end of, numberless, numerous, plentiful, populous, prevalent, rife, several, sundry, teeming, umpteen, uncounted, varied, various |
Antonyms: |
few, scarce |
| Main Entry: | numerous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | many, abundant |
Synonyms: |
big, copious, diverse, great, infinite, large, legion, lousy with, multifarious, multitudinal, multitudinous, plentiful, populous, profuse, rife, scads, several, sundry, thick, umpteen, various, voluminous, zillion |
Antonyms: |
deficient, few, lacking, little, small |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | plentiful/plenty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | abundant, productive |
Synonyms: |
abounding, ample, bounteous, bountiful, bumper, chock-full, complete, copious, enough, excessive, extravagant, exuberant, fertile, flowing, flush*, fruitful, full, fulsome, generous, improvident, infinite, large, lavish, liberal, lousy with, lush, luxuriant, overflowing, plenteous, prodigal, profuse, prolific, replete, rife, sufficient, superabundant, superfluous, swarming, swimming, teeming |
Antonyms: |
few, lacking, little, needing, rare, scarce, wanting |
| Main Entry: | popular |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | common, standard |
Synonyms: |
accepted, accessible, adopted, approved, conventional, current, demanded, embraced, familiar, general, in demand, in use, ordinary, prevailing, prevalent, proletarian, public, rampant, regnant, rife, ruling, stock, ubiquitous, universal, widespread |
Antonyms: |
different, uncommon, unusual |
| Main Entry: | prevailing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | general, dominant |
Synonyms: |
all-embracing, by the numbers, catholic, common, comprehensive, current, customary, ecumenical, established, familiar, fashionable, in style, in vogue, influential, main, operative, ordinary, popular, predominant, predominating, preponderating, prevalent, principal, rampant, regnant, regular, rife, ruling, set, steady, sweeping, universal, usual, widespread, worldwide |
Antonyms: |
individual, minor, peculiar, private, unimportant |