Synonyms of the word sweeping


SWEEPINGBROAD - CLEANING - CLEANSING - CLEANUP - INDISCRIMINATE - WHOLESALE - WIDE

sweeping

  • v. present participle of sweep.
  • n. (countable) An instance of sweeping.
  • n. (uncountable) The activity of sweeping.
  • adj. wide, broad, affecting or touching upon many things.
  • adj. Completely overwhelming.

broad

  • adj. Wide in extent or scope.
  • adj. Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full.
  • adj. Having a large measure of any thing or quality; not limited; not restrained.
  • adj. Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged.
  • adj. Plain; evident.
  • adj. Free; unrestrained; unconfined.
  • adj. (dated) Gross; coarse; indelicate.
  • adj. (of an accent) Strongly regional.
  • adj. (Gaelic languages) Velarized, i.e. not palatalized.
  • n. (dated) A prostitute, a woman of loose morals.
  • n. (US) A woman or girl.
  • n. (Britain) A shallow lake, one of a number of bodies of water in eastern Norfolk and Suffolk.
  • n. A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders.
  • n. (Britain, historical) A British gold coin worth 20 shillings, issued by the Commonwealth of England in…

cleaning

  • v. present participle of clean.
  • n. (gerund of clean) A situation in which something is cleaned.
  • n. The afterbirth of cows, ewes, etc.

cleansing

  • adj. That cleanses.
  • n. The process of removing dirt, toxins etc.
  • v. present participle of cleanse.

cleanup

  • n. The act of cleaning or tidying something.
  • adv. (baseball) Fourth in the batting order.

indiscriminate

  • adj. Without care or making distinctions, thoughtless.

wholesale

  • n. (business) The sale of products, often in large quantities, to retailers or other merchants.
  • adj. Of or relating to sale in large quantities, for resale.
  • adj. Extensive, indiscriminate, all-encompassing; blanket.
  • adv. In bulk or large quantity.
  • adv. Indiscriminately.
  • v. To sell at wholesale.

wide

  • adj. Having a large physical extent from side to side.
  • adj. Large in scope.
  • adj. (sports) Operating at the side of the playing area.
  • adj. On one side or the other of the mark; too far sideways from the mark, the wicket, the batsman, etc.
  • adj. (phonetics, dated) Made, as a vowel, with a less tense, and more open and relaxed, condition of the organs…
  • adj. (Scotland, Northern England, now rare) Vast, great in extent, extensive.
  • adj. Remote; distant; far.
  • adj. (obsolete) Far from truth, propriety, necessity, etc.
  • adj. (computing) Of or supporting a greater range of text characters than can fit into the traditional 8-bit…
  • adv. extensively.
  • adv. completely.
  • adv. away from a given goal.
  • adv. So as to leave or have a great space between the sides; so as to form a large opening.
  • n. (cricket) A ball that passes so far from the batsman that the umpire deems it unplayable; the arm signal…

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