different between shared vs widespread

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????(?)d/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d

Verb

shared

1. simple past tense and past participle of share

Adjective

shared (not comparable)

1. Used by multiple entities or for multiple purposes or in multiple ways.

Synonyms

• (multiple entities): common, mutual; see also Thesaurus:joint

Translations

Anagrams

• Dahers, Dasher, Heards, Herdas, Sheard, dasher, rashed, red ash, shader, sheard

English

Alternative forms

• wide-spread

Etymology

From wide +? spread.

Adjective

widespread (comparative widerspread or more widespread, superlative widestspread or most widespread)

1. Affecting a large area (e.g. the entire land or body); broad in extent; widely diffused.

   • It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.

Synonyms

• extensive, pervasive, prevalent, ubiquitous, universal; see also Thesaurus:widespread

Antonyms

• limited

Derived terms

• widespreadly
• widespreadness

Translations