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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | worldwide |
| Synonyms: | all-embracing, cosmopolitan, ecumenical, foreign, global, intercontinental, universal, world |
| Antonyms: | local, national |
| Main Entry: | panoramic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sweeping |
| Synonyms: | all-around, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, bird's-eye, blanket, broad, complete, comprehensive, far-reaching, full, panned, scenic, wide-ranging |
| Main Entry: | prevailing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | general, dominant |
| Synonyms: | all-embracing, by the numbers, catholic, common, comprehensive, current, customary, ecumenical, established, familiar, fashionable, in style, in vogue, influential, main, operative, ordinary, popular, predominant, predominating, preponderating, prevalent, principal, rampant, regnant, regular, rife, ruling, set, steady, sweeping, universal, usual, widespread, worldwide |
| Antonyms: | individual, minor, peculiar, private, unimportant |
| Main Entry: | sweeping |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wide-ranging |
| Synonyms: | across-the-board, all-around, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, all-out, bird's-eye, blanket, broad, complete, comprehensive, exaggerated, exhaustive, extensive, full, general, global, inclusive, indiscriminate, out-and-out, overall, overdrawn, overstated, radical, thorough, thorough-going, unqualified, vast, wall-to-wall, whole-hog, wholesale, wide |
| Antonyms: | exclusive, narrow |
| Main Entry: | thorough/thoroughgoing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | exhaustive |
| Synonyms: | absolute, all the way, all-embracing, all-inclusive, all-out, assiduous, blow-by-blow, careful, circumstantial, clocklike, complete, comprehensive, conscientious, detailed, efficient, exact, from A to Z, full, full-dress, in-depth, intensive, itemized, meticulous, minute, painstaking, particular, particularized, plenty, royal, scrupulous, slam-bang, soup to nuts, sweeping, tough, whole-hog |
| Antonyms: | incomplete, inexhaustive, partial, superficial, unfinished |
| 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: | 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
| Main Entry: | thoroughpaced |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thorough |
| Synonyms: | absolute, all the way, all-embracing, all-inclusive, all-out, assiduous, blow-by-blow, careful, circumstantial, clocklike, complete, comprehensive, conscientious, detailed, efficient, exact, exhaustive, from A to Z, full, full-dress, in-depth, intensive, itemized, meticulous, minute, painstaking, particular, particularized, plenty, royal, scrupulous, slam-bang, soup to nuts, sweeping, thoroughgoing, tough*, whole-hog |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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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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