英和和英

語源

From wide +‎ spread.

発音

• (predicative) IPA: /ˌwaɪdˈspɹɛd/
• (prenominal) IPA: /ˈwaɪdˌspɹɛd/

形容詞

widespread (comparative more widespread or (rare) widerspread, superlative most widespread or (rare) widestspread)

1. Affecting, or found throughout, a large area (e.g. the entire land or body); broad in extent; widely diffused.

   widespread belief

   widespread criticism

   widespread acceptance

   There was widespread support for the proposal.

   The storm caused widespread damage.

   • 1906, Stanley J[ohn] Weyman, chapter I, in Chippinge Borough, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., →OCLC, page 01:

     It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.

   • 2013 June 28, Joris Luyendijk, “Our banks are out of control”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 3, page 21:

     Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]  Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger, leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.

2. (uncommon) Spread far apart.
   • 1964, Evan Hunter, Buddwing:

     Women with knee-length silk stockings, sitting with widespread legs on sunwashed green benches

同意語

• extensive, pervasive, prevalent, ubiquitous, universal; see also Thesaurus:widespread

反意語

• limited

派生語

• widespreadly
• widespreadness