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Synonyms for sprawling
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Princeton's WordNet
sprawl, sprawling(adj)
an ungainly posture with arms and legs spread about
Synonyms:
conurbation, sprawl, urban sprawlAntonyms:
tidysprawling, straggling, rambling, straggly(adj)
spreading out in different directions
"sprawling handwriting"; "straggling branches"; "straggly hair"
Synonyms:
wandering(a), rambling, winding, straggly, discursive, excursive, digressive, meandering(a), stragglingAntonyms:
tidy
Editors Contribution
lounge, ramble, slouch
sit around;lazy
"the boys were sprawling around in gym class"
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "sprawling":
Words popularity by usage frequency
| rank | word | |
|---|---|---|
| #1758 | complex | |
| #14880 | winding | |
| #24972 | rambling | |
| #26528 | sprawl | |
| #34062 | sprawling | |
| #53297 | discursive | |
| #125649 | straggling | |
| #140625 | conurbation | |
| #287122 | straggly | |
| #312524 | digressive |
How to use sprawling in a sentence?
Cydney Ireland said. The sprawling, 58,000-student main campus in downtown Columbus is one of the nation's largest. Fox News contributor Rod Wheeler, a former Washington DC homicide detective and an Ohio State University alum, said the school's police department is highly trained. People don’t need to panic.
We just heard a loud noise sounding like thunder and saw that the huge mountain collapsed and a huge wave of rubble was moving and sprawling on a wide area, it was just like a nightmare.
Their dogged determination and skilled investigative techniques were crucial in exposing and dissecting this sprawling corruption scheme.
What is happening ... is an increase of sprawling urbanization, informality is gaining share in the growth of cities.
Providing a defensive briefing, like the one given to Senator Feinstein, is a typical response to these kinds of situations, the refusal to give the Trump campaign a defensive briefing, and instead opening a sprawling counter-intelligence investigation of American citizens, is one of many alarming ways that intelligence leaders drastically diverged from normal procedures in their Trump campaign investigation.
Translations for sprawling
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- المترامية الاطرافArabic
- vidtstrakteDanish
- sich ausbreitendGerman
- αναδιπλώνεταιGreek
- desmadejadoSpanish
- tentaculaireFrench
- terpeszkedésHungarian
- luasIndonesian
- tentacolareItalian
- 広大なJapanese
- sprawlingLatin
- gespartelDutch
- viltvoksendeNorwegian
- rozwalonyPolish
- alastrandoPortuguese
- asupra luiRomanian
- spretigSwedish
- yayılanTurkish
- چراغUrdu
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