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Everyday vs Widespread - What's the difference?

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Everyday is a related term of widespread.


As adjectives the difference between everyday and widespread

is that everyday is appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions while widespread is affecting a large area (eg the entire land or body); broad in extent; widely diffused.

As an adverb everyday

is .

As a noun everyday

is (rare) the ordinary or routine day or occasion.

everyday

English

Adjective

(-)
  • appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions
  • * 1906 , , Chapter 4: The engine-burglar,
    • When they had gone, Bobbie put on her everyday frock, and went down to the railway.
  • commonplace, ordinary
  • * 2010 , Malcolm Knox, The Monthly , April 2010, Issue 55, The Monthly Ptd Ltd, page 42:
    • Although it is an everyday virus, there is something about influenza that inspires awe.

    Synonyms

    * mundane * quotidian * routine * unremarkable * workaday

    Adverb

    (head)

    • Usage notes

    When describing the frequency of an event, it is considered correct to separate the individual words: every hour'', ''every day'', ''every week , etc.

    Noun

    (-)
  • (rare) the ordinary or routine day or occasion

    • widespread

    English

    Adjective

  • Affecting a large area (e.g. the entire land or body); broad in extent; widely diffused.
  • *
  • *: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.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)
    • , volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Our banks are out of control , passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic

    Synonyms

    * extensive, pervasive, prevalent, ubiquitous, universal

    Antonyms

    * limited