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Synonyms for sprawling
sprawl·ing
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Princeton's WordNet
sprawl, sprawlingadjective
an ungainly posture with arms and legs spread about
Synonyms:
conurbation, sprawl, urban sprawlAntonyms:
tidysprawling, straggling, rambling, stragglyadjective
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
ranking | word | |
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#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?
This site is so sprawling that we're able to build on the campus. We're getting better and better at this because it seems like the past couple of years the potential playoff team has been the Super Bowl host city, starting in November we started to build contingencies around each round. It’s no secret that the championship game scenario is the most challenging scenario because it obviously shortened everything.
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.
What is happening ... is an increase of sprawling urbanization, informality is gaining share in the growth of cities.
But Republicans controlled the state legislature. They weren't about to make the congressional districts more representative of the actual electorate. No. So they went to work drawing districts that artificially increased their own advantage, connecting suburban districts with sprawling, rural communities, consolidating minority-heavy areas and generally painting Texas red.
It wasn’t a change of heart that caused Beijing to pull back its regulatory push on tech companies, it was a concession to economic reality, the goal of furthering state control over sprawling tech empires, however, wasn’t abandoned.
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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