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Sprawling vs Expansive - What's the difference?

sprawling | expansive |

As adjectives the difference between sprawling and expansive

is that sprawling is that sprawls while expansive is able to be expanded.

As a verb sprawling

is .

As a noun sprawling

is the act of one who sprawls.

sprawling

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That sprawls
  • Expansive; extensive

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who sprawls.
  • * 1838 , Colburn's New Monthly Magazine and Humorist (page 176)
    • Having feasted our souls with this sublime spectacle, we ministered to the wants of the body by a plentiful breakfast, and about noon we commenced the descent, rendered ludicrous enough by various tumblings and sprawlings on the part of the more inexpert mountaineers.

    expansive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Able to be expanded.
  • Comprehensive in scope or extent.
    • An expansive research work.
  • Talkative and sociable.
  • (mathematics) Exhibiting expansivity.