different between widespread vs doomsday

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

English

Alternative forms

• domesday (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English domes + dai, from Old English dom (“judgment”) + dæg (“day”). Equivalent to doom +? -s- +? day.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?du?mz.de?/
• Hyphenation: dooms?day

Noun

doomsday (countable and uncountable, plural doomsdays)

1. The day when God is expected to judge the world; end times.
2. judgement day; the day of the Final Judgment; any day of decisive judgement or final dissolution.

Synonyms

Translations

Adjective

doomsday (not comparable)

1. Concerned with or predicting future universal destruction.
2. Given to or marked by forebodings or predictions of impending calamity.
3. Capable of causing widespread or total destruction.

Derived terms