Word Type

Noun

Adjective

Adjective

Verb

The word "sweeping" can be used as noun, adjective, adjective and verb.

Word Relationships

Coordinate Terms

ticking

Derived Terms

at a sweeping reduction sweeping day sweeping flood sweeping rain sweeping-machine sweepings

Inflected/Variant Forms

sweep

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

cleaning cleansing cleanup

Type Of (IsA)

cleaning housework intelligent agent activity use of device way of cleaning dust

Part Of

cleaning up kitchen

Related Terms

affect broad overwhelming sweep wide

Similar Terms

broad indiscriminate wide wide

Synonym Network

across board wholesale

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.