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spreading
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extended |
| Synonyms: | extensive, growing, radial, spread out, widening |
| Main Entry: | bushy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shaggy, unkempt |
| Synonyms: | bristling, bristly, disordered, feathery, fluffy, fringed, full, furry, fuzzy, hairy, heavy, hirsute, leafy, luxuriant, nappy, prickly, rough, rumpled, spreading, stiff, thick, tufted, unruly, wiry, woolly |
| Antonyms: | bald, neat, well-kept |
| Main Entry: | centrifugal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | radiating from a central point |
| Synonyms: | deviating, diffusive, divergent, diverging, eccentric, efferent, outward, radial, spiral, spreading |
| Notes: | centrifugal force pulls away or pushes outward; centripetal draws toward or pulls inward |
| Antonyms: | centripetal |
| Main Entry: | contagious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | communicable |
| Synonyms: | catching, deadly, endemic, epidemic, epizootic, impartible, infectious, inoculable, pestiferous, pestilential, poisonous, spreading, taking, transmissible, transmittable |
| Notes: | diseases spread by contact are contagious and those spread by air or water are infectious |
| Antonyms: | noncommunicable |
| Main Entry: | discursive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rambling |
| Synonyms: | deviating, digressive, erratic, excursive, long-winded, meandering, prolix, roaming, roving, spreading, wandering |
| Main Entry: | rambling |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sprawling, spread out |
| Synonyms: | at length, covering, gangling, here and there, irregular, random, scattered, spreading, straggling, strewn, trailing, unplanned |
| Antonyms: | direct, straight |
| Main Entry: | rampant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | uncontrolled, out of hand |
| Synonyms: | aggressive, blustering, boisterous, clamorous, dominant, epidemic, exceeding bounds, excessive, extravagant, exuberant, fanatical, flagrant, furious, growing, impetuous, impulsive, luxuriant, on the rampage, out of control, outrageous, pandemic, predominant, prevalent, profuse, raging, rampaging, rank, rife, riotous, spreading, tumultous/tumultuous, turbulent, unbridled, unchecked, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unrestrained, unruly, vehement, violent, wanton, widespread, wild |
| Antonyms: | checked, controlled, limited, restrained |
| Main Entry: | creeping |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | given to creeping |
| Synonyms: | climbing, clinging, growing along the ground, horizontal, procumbent, prostrate, recumbent, reptant, reptilian, serpentine, spreading, stoloniferous, trailing, vermicular, vinelike |
| Antonyms: | standing, upright, vertical |
| Main Entry: | extending |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | reaching |
| Synonyms: | approaching, continual, continuing, continuous, endless, going on, lengthening, perpetual, ranging, spanning, spreading, stretching |
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