Ubiquitous
adj ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 Being everywhere at once: omnipresent. not-comparable
"In Christianity, Hinduism, and Judaism, God is ubiquitous."
- 2 Appearing to be everywhere at once; being or seeming to be in more than one location at the same time. not-comparable
"One of the wild suggestions referred to, as at last coming to be linked with the White Whale in the minds of the superstitiously inclined, was the unearthly conceit that Moby Dick was ubiquitous; that he had actually been encountered in opposite latitudes at one and the same instant of time."
- 3 Widespread; very prevalent. not-comparable
- 1 being present everywhere at once wordnet
Example
More examples"The now ubiquitous occurrence of sectarian violence is the product of growing tensions between the country's different ethnic groups."
Etymology
From ubiquity + -ous, from Medieval Latin ubīquitās, from Latin ubīque (“everywhere”), from ubī̆ (“where”) + -que (“each, ever”).
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