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What is another word for wide-spread?

Pronunciation: [wˈa͡ɪdspɹˈɛd] (IPA)

There are several synonyms for the word "wide-spread" which means something that is distributed or prevalent over a large area or population. The first synonym that comes to mind is "ubiquitous" which means something that is present or found everywhere. Another synonym is "pervasive" which means something that has spread throughout an area or population. "Prevalent" is another synonym for wide-spread which means something that is common or widespread. Some other synonyms include "rampant", "widespread", "distributive" and "extensive". These synonyms can be used interchangeably depending on the context and tone of the sentence.
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  • America, when it became known to Europeans, was, as it had long been, a scene of wide-spread revolution.
    Francis Parkman
  • I've just finished a (for me) very important book about the parents (Louis Martin and Zélie Martin) of the Little Flower..It confirms my thesis 100 per cent: that everything claimed by her super-heralds as her direct inspiration, her unique originality, in fact stemmed from inheritance, upbringing and repetition...Most interesting for me is the recognition how alien and remote this piety of the late nineteenth century has become, even for cultivated contemporary Catholic writers - a veritable ; otherwise this so wide-spread legend of Thérèse's uniqueness could never have grown up.
    Ida Friederike Görres
  • Human virtue, if we went down to the roots of it, is not so rare. The materials of human virtue are everywhere abundant as the light of the sun: raw materials,—O woe, and loss, and scandal thrice and threefold, that they so seldom are elaborated, and built into a result! that they lie yet unelaborated, and stagnant in the souls of wide-spread dreary millions, fermenting, festering; and issue at last as energetic vice instead of strong practical virtue!
    Thomas Carlyle
  • There are, broadly speaking, two types of drinkers. There is the man whom we all know, stupid, unimaginative, whose brain is bitten numbly by numb maggots; who walks generously with wide-spread, tentative legs, falls frequently in the gutter, and who sees, in the extremity of his ecstasy, blue mice and pink elephants.... The other type of drinker has imagination, vision. Even when most pleasantly jingled he walks straight and naturally, never staggers nor falls, and knows just where he is and what he is doing. It is not his body but his brain that is drunken.
    Jack London

Related words: worldwide, all-encompassing, widespread, far-reaching, global

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