sweeping
/ˈswiːpɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.79 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Wide, broad, affecting or touching upon many things.
adj
adj
Moving in a continuous motion, rather than by intermittent jumps. (For example, the second hand on a clock face may move either in the sweeping manner or in the ticking manner.)
Example Sentences
- "The sidewalk needed a sweeping every morning."
- "Sweeping took all morning."
- "The sidewalk needed sweeping every morning."
- "The government will bring in sweeping changes to the income tax system."
- "He loves making sweeping statements without the slightest evidence."
- "We steamed easily across the first part of the Tay Bridge, and then after passing over the long spans in mid-stream we coasted smoothly down the 1 in 114 gradient, and around the sweeping curve through Esplanade Station."
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Phrases
at a sweeping reduction
sweeping day
sweeping flood
sweeping-machine
sweeping rain