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sweeping Adjective 1. affecting many people to a great extent: sweeping financial reforms 2. (of a statement) making general assumptions about an issue without considering the details 3. decisive or overwhelming: to suffer sweeping losses 4. taking in a wide area: a sweeping view of the area
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sweeping adjective 1. indiscriminate, blanket, across-the-board, wholesale, exaggerated, overstated, unqualified, overdrawn adjective 2. wide-ranging, global, comprehensive, wide, broad, radical, extensive, all-inclusive, all-embracing, overarching, thoroughgoing << OPPOSITE limited Translationssweeping [ˈswiːpɪŋ] adj [gesture] → large; circulaire; [changes, reforms] → radical(e); a sweeping statement → une généralisation hâtive sweeping [ˈswiːpɪŋ] sweep adj (gesture) → weit ausholend; (changes, reforms) → weitreichend; (statement) → verallgemeinernd sweeping [ˈswiːpɪŋ] adj [gesture] → ampio/a; [changes, reforms] → ampio/a, radicale; a sweeping statement → un'affermazione generica How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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It was not a bad day for a walk, if you were young and strong, and could breast the great gusts of wind which came sweeping in from the sea. He pointed with a sweeping gesture, as though calling Adam's attention to the extent of the view. I CAN never forget the eighteen or twenty days during which the light trade-winds were silently sweeping us towards the islands. |
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