widespread
adj/ˌwaɪdˈspɹɛd/ · /ˈwaɪdˌspɹɛd/
Etymology From wide + spread.
1
Affecting, or found throughout, a large area (e.g. the entire land or body); broad in extent; widely diffused.
- widespread belief
- widespread criticism
4 more examples
- widespread acceptance
- There was widespread support for the proposal.
- The storm caused widespread damage.
- It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.1906, Stanley J[ohn] Weyman, chapter I, in Chippinge Borough, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., →OCLC, page 01:
2
Uncommon Spread far apart.
- Women with knee-length silk stockings, sitting with widespread legs on sunwashed green benches1964, Evan Hunter, Buddwing:
- Synonyms
- extensive, pervasive, prevalent, ubiquitous, universal, common, disseminated, far-flung, predominant, prevailing, regnant, rife, spread out, systemic, widespread
- Derived terms
- widespreadly, widespreadness
- Hyponyms
- current, enphytotic, enzootic, epidemic, hyperendemic, pandemic, panphytotic, panzootic, penetrating, permeating, pervading