The Collaborative Dictionary

Widespread \Wide"spread`\, a. Spread to a great distance; widely extended; extending far and wide; as, widespread wings; a widespread movement. [1913 Webster]

Word Net

widespread adj

1 widely circulated or diffused; "a widespread doctrine"; "widespread fear of nuclear war"

2 distributed over a considerable extent; "far-flung trading operations"; "the West's far-flung mountain ranges"; "widespread nuclear fallout" [syn: far-flung]

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

English

Etymology

wide + spread

Adjective

1. Affecting a large area (e.g. the entire land or body); broad in extent.

Synonyms

• extensive, pervasive, prevalent

Antonyms

• limited

Translations

• Finnish: laajalle levinnyt
• French: répandu