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widerspread

widerspread is the comparative form of widespread.

Meaning of widespread

Adjective

widespread (comparative more widespread or (rare) widerspread, superlative most widespread or (rare) widestspread)

  1. Affecting, or found throughout, a large area (e.g. the entire land or body); broad in extent; widely diffused.
    • widespread belief
  2. (uncommon) Spread far apart.
    • Women with knee-length silk stockings, sitting with widespread legs on sunwashed green benches1964, Evan Hunter, Buddwing

Questions about widerspread

What is widerspread the comparative form of?
Widerspread is the comparative form of widespread.

Words near widerspread in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: widerspread (page history and authors); widespread (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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