wide-ranging

Thân thiện

The pianist performed a wide-ranging repertoire at the concert.

Definition

Adjective: 1. Covering or including a great variety of things; extensive in scope: The word describes something that includes many different types, subjects, or areas, or that extends over a large range. 2. Widely different; varied: It can also describe something characterized by great diversity or variety within itself.

Usage

The adjective "wide-ranging" is used to modify a noun, indicating that the noun's scope, influence, or content is broad and comprehensive. It often describes discussions, interests, effects, studies, or collections.

Examples

• The committee conducted a wide-ranging investigation into the industry's practices.
• She has wide-ranging talents, from mathematics to music.
• The new policy is expected to have wide-ranging consequences for the economy.
• The professor's lecture was a wide-ranging discussion of 20th-century art movements.
• The book offers a wide-ranging analysis of global climate patterns.

Advanced Usage

• "wide-ranging powers": Describes authority or legal powers that are broad and not limited to a specific area.
  • The new agency was given wide-ranging powers to regulate the financial sector.
• "wide-ranging reforms": Refers to a set of changes or improvements that affect many different parts of a system.
  • The government proposed wide-ranging reforms to the healthcare system.

Variants and Related Words

• Wide-ranging is typically hyphenated when used as a compound adjective before a noun (e.g., a wide-ranging debate). It may sometimes be written without a hyphen in other positions.
• Range (verb/noun): The base word, meaning to vary between limits or the area of variation.
• Far-ranging (adjective): Very similar in meaning, emphasizing great extent or scope.

Synonyms

• Extensive
• Comprehensive
• Broad
• Sweeping
• Varied
• Diverse
• All-encompassing

Antonyms

• Narrow
• Limited
• Restricted
• Specific
• Specialized

Related Phrases

• Cover a wide range: A verbal phrase with a similar meaning.
  • His research covers a wide range of topics.
• Run the gamut: An idiom meaning to encompass a complete range of something.
  • The interviews ran the gamut from supportive to hostile. (This implies a wide-ranging set of opinions).

Học thuật

Adjective

1. widely different
   • varied motives prompt people to join a political party
   • varied ethnic traditions of the immigrants
2. including much
   • the pianist's wide-ranging repertoire

Từ đồng nghĩa

• varied