sweepingly
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7.4
- adverb
- /ˈswiːpɪŋli/
:
de manera general
- The report sweepingly covered the major issues facing the organization.
Examples
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The first phrase is sweepingly general; the second is more carefully qualified.
Fiction book (1996) -
An election that sweepingly rejects racism, homophobia, and sexism as political agendas?
Blog text (22) -
Thus it is with a lot of engineering achievements that we sweepingly summarize in a word or two.
Academic text (2000) -
These files, as we might call them, are both sweepingly inclusive and penetratingly minute.
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Even more sweepingly, with few exceptions, prime time gives us people preoccupied with personal ambition.
Academic text (1993) -
Perhaps, just perhaps, you should instead try to consider exactly what it is that makes it so easy for you and others to so sweepingly dismiss it?
Blog text (30) -
Khilnani is charmingly self-indulgent, fond of sweepingly colorful generalizations.
Academic text (1998) -
Had a conservative been president, chances are the stimulus package wouldn't have been so sweepingly broad or so horribly back-loaded.
Blog text (15) -
Instead, though, he likes to formulate his prescriptions fairly strongly and sweepingly, even if they contradict things he's said a mere chapter (or paragraph!) previously.
Blog text (5) -
Steiner's thought, which has challenged modern thought in both ontology and epistemology even more explicitly and sweepingly than Whitehead's, has accordingly been even more thoroughly outside the mainstream.
Academic text (1991)
Synonyms
84
3.7
In a general way without giving details
33
3.3
In general, something is true when you think about everything
26
2.7
In a wide or large way, for example with a big smile
15
4.4
Affecting everyone or everything in a group in the same way
8
4.9
In a way that includes almost all parts
4
5.4
Looking at all parts together
3
4.2
In a general way without giving specific details
3
5.1
In an open, warm, and excited way
1
3.7
To say something is true in general
In a general way without details
Antonyms
How Broad
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4.9
1
7.4
26
2.7
∞
1.0
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4.1
950
3.2
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Sweepingly comes from sweep, which means 'to move across a large area', like pushing with a broom. So, to say something sweepingly is to say it in a very broad, general way that covers many things at once.