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| Main Entry: | spreading |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extended |
| Synonyms: | extensive, growing, radial, spread out, widening |
| Main Entry: | spread |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | open or fan out |
| Synonyms: | arrange, array, bloat, branch off, broaden, cast, circulate, coat, cover, daub, develop, diffuse, dilate, disperse, diverge, enlarge, escalate, expand, extend, flatten, flow, gloss, increase, lay, lengthen, level, lie, multiply, mushroom, open, overlay, paint, pervade, prepare, proliferate, radiate, reach, set, settle, smear, sprawl, spray, stretch, strew, suffuse, swell, unfold, unfurl, unroll, unwind, widen, be displayed, be distributed, even out, outstretch, roll out, uncoil, untwist |
| Antonyms: | close, collect, compress, gather |
| Main Entry: | spread |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | publicize |
| Synonyms: | advertise, blazon, broadcast, cast, circulate, declare, diffuse, disseminate, distribute, proclaim, promulgate, propagate, publish, radiate, scatter, shed, sow, strew, transmit, make known, make public |
| Antonyms: | conceal, hide |
| Main Entry: | bushy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shaggy, unkempt |
| Synonyms: | bristly, disordered, feathery, fluffy, fringed, full, fuzzy, hairy, heavy, hirsute, leafy, luxuriant, nappy, prickly, rough, spreading, stiff, thick, tufted, unruly, wiry, woolly, bristling, furry, rumpled |
| Antonyms: | bald, neat, well-kept |
| Main Entry: | centrifugal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | radiating from a central point |
| Synonyms: | deviating, divergent, eccentric, outward, radial, spiral, spreading, diffusive, diverging, efferent |
| Notes: | centrifugal force pulls away or pushes outward; centripetal draws toward or pulls inward |
| Antonyms: | centripetal |
| Main Entry: | contagious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | communicable |
| Synonyms: | catching, deadly, endemic, epidemic, infectious, pestiferous, poisonous, spreading, epizootic, impartible, inoculable, pestilential, taking, transmissible, transmittable |
| Antonyms: | noncommunicable |
| Main Entry: | discursive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rambling |
| Synonyms: | deviating, digressive, erratic, excursive, long-winded, meandering, prolix, roaming, roving, spreading, wandering |
| Main Entry: | rampant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | uncontrolled, out of hand |
| Synonyms: | aggressive, boisterous, clamorous, dominant, epidemic, excessive, extravagant, exuberant, fanatical, flagrant, furious, growing, impetuous, impulsive, luxuriant, out of control, outrageous, predominant, prevalent, profuse, raging, rank, rife, riotous, spreading, tumultous/tumultuous, turbulent, unbridled, unchecked, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unrestrained, unruly, vehement, violent, wanton, widespread, wild, blustering, exceeding bounds, on the rampage, pandemic, rampaging |
| Antonyms: | limited, restrained, checked, controlled |
| Main Entry: | extending |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | reaching |
| Synonyms: | approaching, continual, continuing, continuous, endless, perpetual, ranging, spreading, going on, lengthening, spanning, stretching |
| Main Entry: | growing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | increasing |
| Synonyms: | animate, budding, crescent, enlarging, flourishing, living, maturing, spreading, swelling, thriving, viable, amplifying, augmenting, burgeoning, crescive, developing, dilating, expanding, fructifying, germinating, mushrooming, pullulating, sprouting, stretching, waxing |
| Antonyms: | lessening, shrinking, withering |
| Main Entry: | radial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | branching |
| Synonyms: | spiral, spreading, branched, outspread, radiating, spoked |
| Main Entry: | development |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | growth |
| Synonyms: | addition, advance, advancement, augmentation, boost, buildup, enlargement, evolution, expansion, flowering, hike, improvement, increase, increasing, maturing, maturity, ongoing, progress, progression, reinforcement, spread, spreading, adding to, adulthood, advancing, augmenting, chrysalis, developing, elaborating, evolvement, evolving, making progress, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny, perfecting, reinforcing, ripening, unfolding, unraveling, upgrowth, upping |
| Antonyms: | decline, decrease, stoppage |
| Main Entry: | distribution |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | allocation, dispersion |
| Synonyms: | administration, allotment, apportionment, assessment, circulating, circulation, delivery, diffusion, dispensation, disposal, dissemination, division, dole, handling, mailing, marketing, partition, propagation, scattering, sharing, spreading, transport, transportation, alloting, apportioning, assigning, dealing, dispersal, disposing, dissipating, handing out, partitioning, prorating, rationing, trading |
| Antonyms: | collection, gathering, hoard, maintenance, store, hoarding |
| Main Entry: | spread |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | expansion, development; extent |
| Synonyms: | advance, advancement, compass, diffusion, dispersion, dissemination, enlargement, escalation, expanse, extension, increase, period, profusion, proliferation, radiation, ramification, range, reach, scope, span, spreading, stretch, sweep, term, transfusion, transmission, suffusion |
| Antonyms: | stagnation, suppression |
| Main Entry: | fertilization |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | the enrichment of land |
| Synonyms: | covering, dressing, enrichment, preparation, spreading, liming, manuring, mulching |
| Main Entry: | rambling |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sprawling, spread out |
| Synonyms: | covering, gangling, irregular, random, scattered, spreading, trailing, unplanned, at length, here and there, straggling, strewn |
| Antonyms: | direct, straight |
| Main Entry: | creeping |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | given to creeping |
| Synonyms: | clinging, horizontal, prostrate, recumbent, reptilian, serpentine, spreading, trailing, climbing, growing along the ground, procumbent, reptant, stoloniferous, vermicular, vinelike |
| Antonyms: | standing, upright, vertical |
| Main Entry: | proliferation |
| Part of Speech: | noun2 |
| Definition: | increase |
| Synonyms: | expansion, spread, spreading |
| Main Entry: | propagation |
| Part of Speech: | noun2 |
| Definition: | diffusion |
| Synonyms: | circulation, dispersion, distribution, spread, spreading |
| Main Entry: | apply |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | put substance on another |
| Synonyms: | administer, affix, anoint, bestow, cover, fasten, join, massage, paint, place, put on, rub, smear, spread, touch, lay on |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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