sweeping
sweeping is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Cleaning off surfaces, or cleaning away dust, dirt, or litter, as a broom does; moving with swiftness and force; carrying everything before it; including in its scope many persons or things; as, a sweeping flood; a sweeping majority; a sweeping accusation. -- Sweep"ing*ly, adv. -Sweep"ing*ness, n.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- about
- abroad
- all
- always
- and
- anybody
- average
- besetting
- better
- broad
- catholic
- catholical
- catholicism
- catholicity
- collective
- common
- comprehensive
- covered
- customary
- dispersed
- dragnet
- ecumenical
- encyclopedical
- epidemic
- every
- everybody
- everyone
- for
- general
- generality
- generalization
- generalize
- generally
- generic
- going
- habitual
- his
- impersonal
- long
- man
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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