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Sprawling vs Widespread - What's the difference?

sprawling | widespread |

As adjectives the difference between sprawling and widespread

is that sprawling is that sprawls while widespread is affecting a large area (e.g. the entire land or body); broad in extent; widely diffused.

As a verb sprawling

is present participle of lang=en.

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.

    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