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Rife vs Widespread - What's the difference?

rife | widespread |

As a proper noun rife

is (region in northern morocco).

As an adjective widespread is

affecting a large area (eg the entire land or body); broad in extent; widely diffused.

rife

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Widespread, common (especially of unpleasant or harmful things).
  • Smallpox was rife after the siege had been lifted.
  • * Arbuthnot
  • Before the plague of London, inflammations of the lungs were rife and mortal.
  • * Milton
  • The tumult of loud mirth was rife .
  • * 1900 , Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams'', ''Avon Books , (translated by James Strachey) pg. 170:
  • The 'denominational considerations' mentioned below relate, of course, to anti-Semitic feeling, which was already rife in Vienna during the last years of the nineteenth century.
  • * 2013 , Daniel Taylor, Chelsea's Branislav Ivanovic climbs highest to sink Benfica'' (in ''The Guardian , 15 May 2013)[http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2013/may/15/benfica-chelsea-europa-league]
  • They will have to reflect on a seventh successive defeat in a European final while Chelsea try to make sense of an eccentric season rife with controversy and bad feeling but once again one finishing on an exhilarating high.
  • Abounding; present in large numbers, plentiful.
  • These woodlands are rife with red deer.
  • (obsolete) Having power; active; nimble.
  • * J. Webster
  • What! I am rife a little yet.

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Plentifully, abundantly.
  • The snowdrops grow rife on the slopes of Mount Pembroke.

    Anagrams

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    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