Sprawling

adj, noun, verb

adj, noun, verb ·2 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act of one who sprawls.

    "Having feasted our souls with this sublime spectacle, we ministered to the wants of the body by a plentiful breakfast, and about noon we commenced the descent, rendered ludicrous enough by various tumblings and sprawlings on the part of the more inexpert mountaineers."

  2. 2
    an ungainly posture with arms and legs spread about wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of sprawl form-of, gerund, participle, present
Adjective
  1. 1
    That sprawls; that spreads in a disorderly fashion.

    "a sprawling cityscape"

Adjective
  1. 1
    spreading out in different directions or distributed irregularly wordnet

Synonyms

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accumbentcouchantcouchecrawlingdecumbentdeltoid

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"Something hit her and sent her sprawling to the ground."

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