'Widespread' definitions:
Definition of 'widespread'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Widely circulated or diffused; "a widespread doctrine"; "widespread fear of nuclear war"
adjective
Distributed over a considerable extent; "far-flung trading operations"; "the West's far-flung mountain ranges"; "widespread nuclear fallout" [syn: far-flung, widespread]
Definition of 'Widespread'
From: GCIDE
- Widespread \Wide"spread`\, a. Spread to a great distance; widely extended; extending far and wide; as, widespread wings; a widespread movement. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'widespread'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accepted,
- ample,
- amplitudinous,
- broad,
- broadcast,
- capacious,
- commodious,
- conformable,
- consuetudinary,
- conventional,
- current,
- customary,
- deep,
- deltoid,
- diffuse,
- discrete,
- dispersed,
- dispread,
- disseminated,
- dissipated,
- distributed,
- established,
- everyday,
- expansive,
- extended,
- extending,
- extensive,
- familiar,
- fan-shape,
- fan-shaped,
- fanlike,
- fanned,
- fanning,
- far-embracing,
- far-extending,
- far-flung,
- far-flying,
- far-going,
- far-ranging,
- far-reaching,
- flabelliform,
- flared,
- flaring,
- generally accepted,
- indiscriminate,
- infinite,
- large-scale,
- liberal,
- normal,
- obtaining,
- open,
- ordinary,
- outspread,
- outstretched,
- patulous,
- popular,
- prescribed,
- prescriptive,
- prevalent,
- rampant,
- received,
- regnant,
- regular,
- regulation,
- rife,
- roomy,
- ruling,
- scattered,
- set,
- spacious,
- sparse,
- splay,
- splayed,
- splaying,
- sporadic,
- spraddled,
- spraddling,
- sprangled,
- sprangling,
- sprawling,
- sprawly,
- spread,
- spreading,
- standard,
- stock,
- straggling,
- straggly,
- stretched-out,
- strewn,
- strown,
- sweeping,
- time-honored,
- traditional,
- unfolded,
- usual,
- vast,
- voluminous,
- wholesale,
- wide,
- wide-extended,
- wide-extending,
- wide-open,
- wide-ranging,
- wide-reaching,
- wide-stretching,
- wonted