sweeping

Main Entry:
sweeping [swee-ping]
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: sweep
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: fly, glide
Synonyms: career, fleet, flit, flounce, glance, hurtle, pass, sail, scud, skim, tear, wing, zoom
Main Entry: across-the-board
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: broad in scope
Synonyms: all, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, blanket, broad, broad in content, complete, comprehensive, encompassing, everything, extensive, global, including all categories, including all members, panoptic, sweeping, total, wide, widespread
Main Entry: blanket
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: comprehensive
Synonyms: absolute, across-the-board, all-inclusive, overall, powerful, sweeping, unconditional, wide-ranging
Antonyms: incomplete, uncomprehensive
Main Entry: broad
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: extensive
Synonyms: all-embracing, all-inclusive, comprehensive, copious, encyclopedic, expansive, extended, far-flung, far-reaching, general, inclusive, nonspecific, scopic, sweeping, ubiquitous, undetailed, universal, unlimited, wide, wide-ranging, widespread
Antonyms: narrow, small
Main Entry: complete
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: finished
Synonyms: accomplished, achieved, all over, all over but the shouting, all-embracing, all-inclusive, attained, compassed, concluded, consummate, done, done with, down, effected, ended, entire, executed, fini, finished off, full, full-fledged, home free, perfect, plenary, realized, sweeping, terminated, that's it, through
Antonyms: imperfect, incomplete, unfinished
Main Entry: comprehensive
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: inclusive
Synonyms: absolute, across the board, all-embracing, all-inclusive, blanket, broad, catholic, compendious, complete, comprising, containing, discursive, encircling, encyclopedic, exhaustive, expansive, extensive, far-reaching, full, general, global, in depth, infinite, lock stock and barrel, of great scope, overall, sweeping, synoptic, the big picture, the whole shebang, the works, thorough, umbrella, wall-to-wall, whole, wide, widespread
Antonyms: exclusive, incomprehensive, particular, selective, specific
Main Entry: curved
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: bowed, bent
Synonyms: S-shaped, arced, arched, arciform, arrondi, biflected, circular, compass, crooked, curly, curvaceous, curvilinear, declinate, elliptical, enbowed, humped, incurvate, incurved, looped, loopy, round, rounded, serpentine, sigmoid, sinuous, skewed, snaky, sweeping, swirly, turned, twisted, twisting, twisty, wreathed
Antonyms: straight
Main Entry: driving
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: forceful
Synonyms: active, compelling, dynamic, energetic, enterprising, galvanic, impellent, lively, propulsive, sweeping, urging, vigorous, violent
Antonyms: unforceful, weak, wimpy
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