Everywhere vs Widespread - What's the difference?
everywhere | widespread |
In or to all locations under discussion.
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Affecting a large area (e.g. the entire land or body); broad in extent; widely diffused.
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*: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.
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As an adverb everywhere
is in or to all locations under discussion.As an adjective widespread is
affecting a large area (eg the entire land or body); broad in extent; widely diffused.everywhere
English
Adverb
(-)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.}}
Antonyms
* nowhereDerived terms
* almost everywhere * everywhere elsewidespread
English
Adjective
Our banks are out of control, passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic