Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

spread out

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.80 in modern English

Syllables: spread- out
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

Become further apart.

Intransitive verb

verb

To place items further apart.

Transitive verb

adj

Far apart, not close to each other, extended over an expanse of space or time.

adj

Covering a wide area of space or long period of time.

Example Sentences

"The police spread out to search a wider area."
"Spread the cards out and then turn two of them over at random."
"In other words, space is very empty, and particles are very spread out."
"It is extremely time-consuming to use public transportation and the restaurants and dining are very spread out."
"The plague is spread person to person, so if the people are very spread out, fewer of them will come in contact with those afflected by the plague."
"The park is very spread out, with two core areas approximately 1.5 km apart, and the trailer dump station almost 2 km away near the park entrance."

Etymology

Analytic form of earlier outspread.

Usage

Inflected Forms

spreads out (present, singular) spreading out (participle, present) more spread out (comparative) most spread out (superlative)

Synonyms

spaced out thin diffuse dispersed incompact loose noncompact scattered sparse spread out uncompact widespread

Questions

What does spread out mean?: Become further apart.
Where does spread out come from?: Analytic form of earlier outspread.

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