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widereaching

widereaching is the alternative form of wide-reaching.

Meaning of wide-reaching

Adjective

wide-reaching (comparative wider-reaching or more wide-reaching, superlative widest-reaching or most wide-reaching)

  1. Having significant and widely applicable effects.
    • Trespass on the railway can result in tragic consequences that can have a life-changing and wide-reaching impact on individuals and their families and friends.2021 September 22, Patrick Talbot, “Rail trespass: why you must secure your premises”, in RAIL, number 940, page 69

Forms of widereaching

comparativemore widereaching
superlativemost widereaching

Questions about widereaching

What is widereaching the alternative form of?
Widereaching is the alternative form of wide-reaching.

Words near widereaching in the dictionary

  1. wideout
  2. wideouts
  3. wider
  4. wider open
  5. wider-spread
  6. widereaching
  7. widershins
  8. widerspread
  9. wides
  10. widescale
  11. widescreen

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Adapted from Wiktionary: widereaching (page history and authors); wide-reaching (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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