When a natural disaster causes widespread death and destruction, that's devastation. This is a strong word that suggests serious damage has occurred, leaving almost nothing left. One knocked over car isn't devastation, but a whole town being wiped out is.
sweep. verb. to stretch over a large area, especially in a long wide curve.
to consult together; compare opinions; carry on a discussion or deliberation. transitive verb. 2. to bestow upon as a gift, favor, honor, etc. to confer a degree on a graduate.
1 : having wide or considerable extent extensive reading. 2 : extensional. 3 : of, relating to, or constituting farming in which large areas of land are utilized with minimum outlay and labor.
instead of any other words meaning "to spread" or "make prevalent". , making infrastructure establishment widespread across the nation. “the infrastructure”. This noun can take its proper place as object of the verb, instead of languishing as a virtual adjective.
Verb. hamper, trammel, clog, fetter, shackle, manacle mean to hinder or impede in moving, progressing, or acting. hamper may imply the effect of any impeding or restraining influence. hampered the investigation by refusing to cooperate trammel suggests entangling by or confining within a net.
1 : to assume a posture or attitude usually for artistic purposes. 2 : to affect an attitude or character usually to deceive or impress posed as a doctor to gain access to the ward. pose. noun.
In this page you can discover 108 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for popular, like: in the public eye, famous, approved, prevalent, favorite, well-liked, leading, in high favor, trendy, promoted and notorious.
: complete, sweeping an all-embracing theory.
In this page you can discover 18 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for pervasive, like: prevalent, common, dominant, extensive, universal, widespread, light, narrow, limited, suffusive and ubiquitous.
SYNONYMS FOR large1 huge, enormous, immense, gigantic, colossal; massive; vast.
The quality of being widespread.
: present in all places at all times the museum's omnipresent security apparatus big-city crime dramas, with omnipresent gloom and seedy, nocturnal settings— R. F. Moss.
(Entry 1 of 2) 1a : of or relating to a community at large : public work for the common good. b : known to the community common nuisances. 2a : belonging to or shared by two or more individuals or things or by all members of a group a common friend buried in a common grave common interests.
: existing in or spreading through every part of something a pervasive odor.
? Opposite of of a minimum amount, quantity, or degree. maximum. full. highest.
: capable of change: such as. a : able or apt to vary changeable weather. b : subject to change : alterable changeable plans. c : fickle a person changeable in his moods.
