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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | huge |
| Synonyms: | astronomic, colossal, considerable, enormous, epic, gigantic, ginormous, humongous*, jumbo, mammoth, massive, mega, monster*, monumental, prodigious, sizeable, tremendous, vast, very big, very large, whopping |
| Antonyms: | insignificant, small |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | universal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | worldwide, entire |
| Synonyms: | accepted, all, all-embracing, all-inclusive, all-over, astronomical, broad, catholic, celestial, common, comprehensive, cosmic, cosmopolitan, customary, diffuse, ecumenical, empyrean, extensive, general, generic, global, multinational, mundane, omnipresent, planetary, prevalent, regular, stellar, sweeping, terrestrial, total, ubiquitous, undisputed, unlimited, unrestricted, usual, whole, widespread, worldly |
| Antonyms: | confined, local, partial, particular |
| Main Entry: | vast |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very large; wide in range |
| Synonyms: | all-inclusive, ample, astronomical, big, boundless, broad, capacious, colossal, comprehensive, detailed, endless, enormous, eternal, expanded, extensive, far-flung, far-reaching, forever, giant, gigantic, great, huge, illimitable, immeasurable, immense, infinite, limitless, mammoth, massive, measureless, monstrous, monumental, never-ending, prodigious, prolonged, spacious, spread-out, stretched-out, sweeping, titanic, tremendous, unbounded, unlimited, voluminous, widespread |
| Antonyms: | bounded, limited, little, narrow, small |
| Main Entry: | spherical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stellar |
| Synonyms: | astronomical, celestial, heavenly |
| Main Entry: | stellar |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | celestial |
| Synonyms: | astrological, astronomical, cosmic, galactic, heavenly |
| Main Entry: | pandemic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | universal |
| Synonyms: | accepted, all, all-embracing, all-inclusive, all-over, astronomical, broad, catholic, celestial, common, comprehensive, cosmic, cosmopolitan, customary, diffuse, ecumenical, empyrean, extensive, general, generic, global, multinational, mundane, omnipresent, planetary, prevalent, regular, stellar, sweeping, terrestrial, total*, ubiquitous, undisputed, unlimited, unrestricted, usual, whole, widespread, worldly, worldwide |
| Notes: | an endemic is a disease that is constantly present to a greater or lesser degree in people of a certain class or in people living in a particular location; an epidemic is a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease that infects many people at the same time; a pandemic is an epidemic that is geographically widespread occurring throughout a region or even throughout the world |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | universal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
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Pan-American, all, all over, besetting, broad, catholic, catholical, collective, common, comprehensive, covered with, customary, ecumenical, encyclopedical, epidemic, every, general, generic, impersonal, panharmonic, panslavic, prevailing, prevalent, rife, sweeping, transcendental, universal, unspecified, widespread, world-wide
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