sweeping

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.

sweepingly sweep'ing·ly adv.

adjective

Covering a wide scope: all-around, all-inclusive, all-round, broad, broad-spectrum, comprehensive, expansive, extended, extensive, far-ranging, far-reaching, general, global, inclusive, large, overall, wide-ranging, wide-reaching, widespread. See specific/general.

adj

Definition: wide-ranging
Antonyms: exclusive, narrow

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A handful of beliefs centre on the act of sweeping, in addition to those connected with the broom itself. Sweeping dust out of the house is ill-advised: ‘A Lincolnshire maidservant explained to me some years ago that it was wrong “to sweep out at the door, for fear of sweeping luck away”’(N&Q 9s:6 (1900), 393). On a different tack: ‘In Suffolk, the people say that if after sweeping a room the broom is accidentally left up in a corner, strangers will visit the house in the course of that day’ (Dyer, 1881: 126).

Dansk (Danish)
adj. - fejende, overvældende, omfattende, gennemgribende, radikal
n. - fejning, opfejning, bærme

Nederlands (Dutch)
veelomvattend, ingrijpend

Français (French)
adj. - radical, d'une portée considérable, considérable, éclatant, péremptoire, trop général, large (un geste), profond (une courtoisie), circulaire (un regard), qui balaie le sol (une jupe)
n. - balayures (npl)

Deutsch (German)
adj. - pauschal, schwungvoll, radikal, weitreichend
n. - Kehren

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - εκτεταμένος, γενικός, σαρωτικός, περιεκτικότατος

Italiano (Italian)
vasto, drastico

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - varredor, extenso

Русский (Russian)
уборка, прочесывание, траление, мусор, никчемные люди, широкий, с большим охватом, стремительный, не делающий различий, огульный, очищающий

Español (Spanish)
adj. - extenso, amplio, drástico, radical, aplastante, barredor, arrebatador, largo, que arrastra (cola, vestido)
n. - barrido

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - vittomfattande, vittgående, genomgripande, kraftig, svepande

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
扫荡的, 广泛的, 彻底的, 打扫, 清扫, 扫拢的垃圾

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 掃蕩的, 廣泛的, 徹底的
n. - 打掃, 清掃, 掃攏的垃圾

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 일소하는, 광범위한, 철저한
n. - 청소 , 일소 , 소탕

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 一掃するような, 押し流すような, 広範囲にわたる, 包括的な, 徹底的な, 大ざっぱな, 一掃する, 広範な
n. - 掃き寄せたもの, 掃除, 一掃すること

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) ساحق , كاسح‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮סוחף, מקיף, כולל, כללי, כוללני, מרחיק לכת, ללא הגבלה‬
n. - ‮לכלוך שטואטא‬

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