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sweeping [ˈswiːpɪŋ] adj
1. comprehensive and wide-ranging sweeping reforms 2. indiscriminate or without reservations sweeping statements 3. decisive or overwhelming a sweeping victory 4. taking in a wide area a sweeping glance 5. driving steadily onwards, esp over a large area a sweeping attack sweepingly adv sweepingness n ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
sweeping adjective 1. extensive, broad, vast, expansive, panoramic, spacious the long sweeping curve of Rio's Guanabara Bay 2. indiscriminate, blanket, across-the-board, wholesale, exaggerated, overstated, unqualified, overdrawn, oversimplified sweeping generalizations about ability based on gender 3. wide-ranging, global, comprehensive, wide, broad, radical, extensive, all-inclusive, all-embracing, overarching, thoroughgoing sweeping economic reforms wide-ranging limited, narrow, minor, restricted, modest, token, constrained, unimportant 4. decisive, complete, total, overwhelming, unconditional, unqualified, out-and-out The election was a sweeping victory for the secular centre left. Translations sweeping [ˈswiːpɪŋ] A. ADJ [gesture, movement] → amplio; [generalization] → excesivo; [curve] → abierto; [view] → magnífico; [skirt] → de vuelo amplio; [change] → radical; [victory] → arrollador, aplastante a large house with sweeping lawns → una gran casa con amplias extensiones de césped that's rather a sweeping statement → eso es generalizar demasiado sweeping [ˈswiːpɪŋ] adj [changes, reforms] → radical(e) [curve] the long sweeping curve of Guanabara bay → la longue échancrure de la baie de Guanabara sweeping adj gesture, stroke, curve → weit ausholend; bow, curtsey, lines → schwungvoll; glance → streifend; staircase → geschwungen; lawn → ausgedehnt; view → weit 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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