sweeping (redirected from sweepingness)

sweep·ing  (swpng)

adj.

1. Having wide-ranging influence or effect: sweeping changes.

2. Moving in or as if in a wide curve: a sweeping gesture; a sweeping glance.

3. Indiscriminate; wholesale: sweeping generalizations.

4. Overwhelming; complete: a sweeping victory.

n.

1. The action of one that sweeps.

2. sweepings Things swept up; refuse.

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sweeping·ly adv.

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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

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	sweeping - the act of cleaning with a broom     cleaning, cleansing, cleanup - the act of making something clean; "he gave his shoes a good cleaning"
Adj.	1.	sweeping - taking in or moving over (or as if over) a wide area; often used in combination; "a sweeping glance"; "a wide-sweeping view of the river" broad, wide - having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other; "wide roads"; "a wide necktie"; "wide margins"; "three feet wide"; "a river two miles broad"; "broad shoulders"; "a broad river"
	2.	sweeping - ignoring distinctions; "sweeping generalizations"; "wholesale destruction" wholesale indiscriminate - not marked by fine distinctions; "indiscriminate reading habits"; "an indiscriminate mixture of colors and styles"

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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

B. N

1. (= action) → barrido m, barrida f
we gave it a sweeping → le dimos un barrido or una barrida → lo barrimos

2. sweepings → basura f (tras un barrido) (fig) [of society etc] → desechos mpl, escoria f

sweeping [ˈswiːpɪŋ] adj

[changes, reforms] → radical(e)

[generalization] → abusif/ive
a sweeping statement → une déclaration à l'emporte-pièce

[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

(fig) change, reduction → radikal, drastisch; statement → pauschal; victory → überragend, glänzend; to make a sweeping condemnation of something → etw in Bausch und Bogen verdammen

n (= cleaning) → Kehren nt, → Fegen nt

sweeping [ˈswiːpɪŋ] adj (gesture) → ampio/a; (statement) → generico/a; (changes, reforms) → radicale, ampio/a