| Main Entry: | widespread |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extensive |
Synonyms: |
across the board, all over the place, boundless, broad, common, comprehensive, current, diffuse, epidemic, far-flung, far-reaching, general, on a large scale, outspread, overall, pandemic, pervasive, popular, prevailing, prevalent, public, rampant, regnant, rife, ruling, sweeping, universal, unlimited, unrestricted, wall-to-wall, wholesale |
Antonyms: |
concentrated, limited, local, narrow |
| Main Entry: | across-the-board |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | broad in scope |
Synonyms: |
all, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, blanket, broad, broad in content, complete, comprehensive, encompassing, everything, extensive, global, including all categories, including all members, panoptic, sweeping, total, wide, widespread |
| Main Entry: | broad |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wide physically |
Synonyms: |
ample, capacious, deep, expansive, extended, extensive, full, generous, immense, large, latitudinous, outspread, outstretched, roomy, spacious, splay, squat, thick, vast, voluminous, widespread |
Antonyms: |
narrow, small |
| Main Entry: | broad |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extensive |
Synonyms: |
all-embracing, all-inclusive, comprehensive, copious, encyclopedic, expansive, extended, far-flung, far-reaching, general, inclusive, nonspecific, scopic, sweeping, ubiquitous, undetailed, universal, unlimited, wide, wide-ranging, widespread |
Antonyms: |
narrow, small |
| Main Entry: | common |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | generally known; held in common |
Synonyms: |
accepted, coincident, collective, communal, communistic, community, commutual, congruous, conjoint, conjunct, constant, corporate, correspondent, customary, general, generic, in common, intermutual, joint, like, mutual, popular, prevailing, prevalent, public, reciprocal, shared, social, socialistic, united, universal, usual, well-known, widespread |
| Notes: | mutual applies to reciprocal relationships between two or more things; if something is held in common, use 'common' instead |
| Main Entry: | commonplace |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | usual, everyday |
Synonyms: |
boiler plate, characterless, clichéd, colorless, conventional, corny*, customary, dime-a-dozen, familiar, familiar tune, garden variety, hackneyed, humdrum, lowly, mainstream, matter-of-course, mediocre, middle-of-the-road, middling, mundane, natural, normal, obvious, ordinary, pedestrian, plebeian, prevalent, prosaic, run-of-the-mill, stale, starch, stereotyped, threadbare, trite, typical, uneventful, unexceptional, uninteresting, unnoteworthy, vanilla, widespread, workaday, worn-out |
Antonyms: |
exceptional, infrequent, peculiar, rare, uncommon, unusual |
| Main Entry: | comprehensive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inclusive |
Synonyms: |
absolute, across the board, all-embracing, all-inclusive, blanket, broad, catholic, compendious, complete, comprising, containing, discursive, encircling, encyclopedic, exhaustive, expansive, extensive, far-reaching, full, general, global, in depth, infinite, lock stock and barrel, of great scope, overall, sweeping, synoptic, the big picture, the whole shebang, the works, thorough, umbrella, wall-to-wall, whole, wide, widespread |
Antonyms: |
exclusive, incomprehensive, particular, selective, specific |
| 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: | diffuse |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | spread out |
Synonyms: |
broadcast, catholic, circulated, diluted, dispersed, disseminated, distributed, expanded, extended, general, prevalent, propagated, radiated, scattered, separated, strewn, thin, unconcentrated, universal, widespread |
Antonyms: |
compact, compressed, concentrated, confined, limited, restricted |
| Main Entry: | encyclopedic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | comprehensive |
Synonyms: |
all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, broad, catholic, complete, discursive, exhaustive, extensive, general, thorough, thorough-going, universal, vast, wide-ranging, widespread |
Antonyms: |
brief, incomplete, summary, uncomprehensive |