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Everywhere vs Ubiquitous - What's the difference?

everywhere | ubiquitous |

As an adverb everywhere

is in or to all locations under discussion.

As an adjective ubiquitous is

being everywhere at once: omnipresent.

everywhere

English

Adverb

(-)
  • In or to all locations under discussion.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=76, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Snakes and ladders , passage=Risk is everywhere . From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins. For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you.}}
  • (colloquial) In or to a few or more locations.
  • Antonyms

    * nowhere

    Derived terms

    * almost everywhere * everywhere else

    ubiquitous

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Being everywhere at once: omnipresent.
  • To Hindus, Jews, Muslims and Christians, God is ubiquitous.
  • Seeming to appear everywhere at the same time.
  • Widespread; very prevalent.
  • Quotations

    * 1851 — *: One of the wild suggestions referred to, as at last coming to be linked with the White Whale in the minds of the superstitiously inclined, was the unearthly conceit that Moby Dick was ubiquitous ; that he had actually been encountered in opposite latitudes at one and the same instant of time. * 1927-1929' — *: I returned to the Ashram. The ubiquitous Chetaskumar was there too.

    Synonyms

    * (being everywhere ): omnipresent * (seeming to appear everywhere at the same time ): ever-present

    Derived terms

    * ubiquitously