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widespread

/ˌwaɪdˈspɹɛd/

widespread adjective: affecting, or found throughout, a large area (e.g. the entire land or body); broad in extent; widely diffused.

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
    • widespread criticism
  2. (uncommon) Spread far apart.
    • Women with knee-length silk stockings, sitting with widespread legs on sunwashed green benches1964, Evan Hunter, Buddwing

widespread meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

widespread in Tamil

பரவலாக

widespread in Urdu

عام

widespread in Bengali

ব্যাপক, বহুবিস্তৃত, অতি ব্যাপক

widespread in Malayalam

വ്യാപകമായ, പരക്കെയുള്ള
More languagesFewer languages
widespread in Kannada
ವ್ಯಾಪಕವಾದ, ವಿಸ್ತಾರವಾದ, ಅನೇಕ ಕಡೆ ಹರಡಿರುವ

Examples of widespread in a sentence

  • widespread acceptance
  • There was widespread support for the proposal.
  • The storm caused widespread damage.
  • When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger, leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.2013 June 28, Joris Luyendijk, “Our banks are out of control”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 3, page 21:

All 40 example sentences with widespread

Synonyms of widespread

4 more synonymsFewer synonyms

Antonyms

All synonyms and antonyms of widespread

Forms of widespread

comparativemore widespread
superlativemost widespread
alternative formwide-spread
comparative (rare)widerspread
superlative (rare)widestspread

Origin of widespread

From wide + spread.

Words formed from widespread

Questions about widespread

What does widespread mean?
Widespread means affecting, or found throughout, a large area (e.g. the entire land or body); broad in extent; widely diffused.
What is widespread in Tamil?
Widespread in Tamil is பரவலாக. See Widespread meaning in Tamil.
How do you use widespread in a sentence?
widespread acceptance
What part of speech is widespread?
Widespread is an adjective.
How do you pronounce widespread?
Widespread is pronounced /ˌwaɪdˈspɹɛd/.

Words near widespread in the dictionary

  1. widescreen
  2. widescreens
  3. wideset
  4. widesome
  5. widespan
  6. widespread
  7. widespreaded
  8. widespreadly
  9. widespreadness
  10. widest
  11. widest open

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: widespread (page history and authors); widespread (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); widespread (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); widespread (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); widespread (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); widespread (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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