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| Main Entry: |
ranging
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | moving over wide areas |
| Synonyms: | covering, extensive, roaming, roving, spanning, sweeping, traversing, widespread |
| Main Entry: | regnant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | exercising power |
| Synonyms: | predominant, prevalent, reigning, ruling, sovereign, widespread |
| Main Entry: | all-round |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | general |
| Synonyms: | all-around, all-inclusive, broad, broad-spectrum, comprehensive, expansive, extended, extensive, far-reaching, global, inclusive, overall, sweeping, wide-ranging, wide-reaching, widespread |
| Main Entry: | broad-spectrum |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | general |
| Synonyms: | all-around, all-round, broad, comprehensive, extended, extensive, far-ranging, far-reaching, global, inclusive, large, overall, sweeping, wide-ranging, widespread |
| 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: | prepotent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ruling |
| Synonyms: | ascendant, chief, current, dominant, pivotal, popular, predominant, preeminent, preponderant, prevailing, prevalent, principal, rampant, regnant, rife, supreme, widespread |
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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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