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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | overflowing |
| Synonyms: | abounding, abundant, alive, common, current, epidemic, extensive, frequent, general, many, multitudinous, numerous, pandemic, plentiful, popular, prevailing, prevalent, profuse, raging, rampant, regnant, replete, ruling, swarming, teeming, thronged, ubiquitous, universal, widespread |
| Antonyms: | low, scarce |
| Main Entry: | current |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | contemporary; common |
| Synonyms: | accepted, accustomed, afoot, circulating, common knowledge, customary, cutting-edge, doing, existent, extant, fad, fashionable, general, going around, hot*, in, in circulation, in progress, in the mainstream, in the news, in use, in vogue, instant, leading-edge, mod, modern, now*, on front burner, ongoing, popular, present, present-day, prevailing, prevalent, rampant, regnant, rife, ruling, state-of-the-art, swinging, topical, trendy, up-to-date, widespread |
| Antonyms: | antiquated, old, old-fashioned, past, uncommon, uncontemporary |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | epidemic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | widespread |
| Synonyms: | catching, communicable, contagious, endemic, general, infectious, pandemic, prevailing, prevalent, rampant, rife, sweeping, wide-ranging |
| 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 |
| Antonyms: | limited |
| Main Entry: | many |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | profuse, abundant |
| Synonyms: | abounding, alive with, bounteous, bountiful, copious, countless, crowded, divers, frequent, innumerable, legion, lousy with, manifold, multifarious, multifold, multiplied, multitudinous, myriad, no end of, numberless, numerous, plentiful, populous, prevalent, rife, several, sundry, teeming, umpteen, uncounted, varied, various |
| Notes: | many means being one of a large indefinite number, while much means great in quantity, degree, or extent many means being one of a large indefinite number; several means of an indefinite number more than 2 or 3 but not many |
| Antonyms: | few, scarce |
| Main Entry: | numerous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | many, abundant |
| Synonyms: | big, copious, diverse, great, infinite, large, legion, lousy with, multifarious, multitudinal, multitudinous, plentiful, populous, profuse, rife, scads, several, sundry, thick, umpteen, various, voluminous, zillion |
| Notes: | numerable means that can be counted while numerous means amounting to a large indefinite number numerous means amounting to a large indefinite number while innumerable means too numerous to be counted |
| Antonyms: | deficient, few, lacking, little, small |
| Main Entry: | pervasive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extensive |
| Synonyms: | all over the place, can't get away from, common, general, inescapable, omnipresent, permeating, pervading, prevalent, rife, ubiquitous, universal, wall-to-wall, widespread |
| Antonyms: | light, limited, narrow |
| Main Entry: | plentiful/plenty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | abundant, productive |
| Synonyms: | abounding, ample, bounteous, bountiful, bumper, chock-full, complete, copious, enough, excessive, extravagant, exuberant, fertile, flowing, flush*, fruitful, full, fulsome, generous, improvident, infinite, large, lavish, liberal, lousy with, lush, luxuriant, overflowing, plenteous, prodigal, profuse, prolific, replete, rife, sufficient, superabundant, superfluous, swarming, swimming, teeming |
| Antonyms: | few, lacking, little, needing, rare, scarce, wanting |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | popular |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | common, standard |
| Synonyms: | accepted, accessible, adopted, approved, conventional, current, demanded, embraced, familiar, general, in demand, in use, ordinary, prevailing, prevalent, proletarian, public, rampant, regnant, rife, ruling, stock, ubiquitous, universal, widespread |
| Antonyms: | different, uncommon, unusual |
| 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 |
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