adj ·Moderate ·High school level

Definitions

Adjective

1. 1
   Affecting, or found throughout, a large area (e.g. the entire land or body); broad in extent; widely diffused.

   "widespread belief"

2. 2
   Spread far apart. uncommon

   "Women with knee-length silk stockings, sitting with widespread legs on sunwashed green benches"

Adjective

1. 1
   distributed over a considerable extent wordnet
2. 2
   widely circulated or diffused wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

distributedextensivefar flungacceptedampleamplitudinous

Antonyms

All antonyms

containedendemicfew and far betweenfocal

Example

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"One student says the purge is still going on in China and terror is widespread."

Etymology

From wide + spread.

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