sprawling
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4.4
- adjective
- /ˈsprɔːlɪŋ/
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extenso
- Baghdad is a sprawling city on the Tigris River with a population of 5.6 million people.
- sprawling city
- sprawling campus
- sprawling metropolis
We don't have a huge marble columns location with sprawling lawns and hearses.
- We don't have a huge marble columns location with sprawling lawns and hearses.
- And it, its job is to assess a, you know, a sprawling, vast scientific literature.
- Like, it's not like they're growing older, moving on to like, a sprawling beach house and having a triumphant second act like Diane Keaton in every movie.
- I wanted to have that kind of sprawling vintage sign sweep.
Examples
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A Mexican real estate agent shows Barbara and George a sprawling villa in Puerto Vallarta.
Fiction book (2001) -
A big country home with a huge sprawling lawn full of big oak trees.
Fiction book (1996) -
And so they had these sprawling cities.
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And again, it's this sprawling book with all these characters.
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I mean, beautiful, sprawling, brand new home.
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This is like a sprawling, just never ending place.
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And then Taiwan has cities that are just sprawling and really big.
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The houses, mostly ranch style, large and sprawling, are situated at comfortable distances from each other.
Fiction book (2000) -
A vast, sprawling, chaotic city where there are so many people nobody knows how to count them.
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The region is known for its sprawling landscape, featuring vast fields and winding rivers.
Synonyms
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6.5
Having long, loose parts that look untidy, like hair or bushes
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5.1
Twisting and spreading out in many directions like a path or stream
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3.5
Spread over a wide area and not close together
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3.5
Arranged so they cover a wide area like papers fanned on a table
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8.2
Spreading out in an untidy way across a wide area, like a town or handwriting
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5.5
Stretched wide over a large area
Spread out in an untidy, scattered way, like houses far from a village
Spread out across a wide area
Spread out far across a large area
Antonyms
How Spread Out
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Sprawling comes from the idea of sprawl, like arms or branches stretching out very wide, and it helps to think of the simple word spread, which means 'to stretch out'. So a sprawling city or tree spreads out in an untidy, irregular way across a large area.