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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ever-present |
| Synonyms: | all-over, everywhere, omnipresent, pervasive, ubiquitary, universal, wall-to-wall |
| Antonyms: | rare, scarce |
| 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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