MEANING
Covering a broad variety of subjects, activities, or areas rather than one narrow field.
Use it for
describing an analysis spanning several topics; distinguishing breadth from depth; characterizing a review with a broad scopeDescribes breadth of coverage without implying depth, conclusiveness or extensive consequences. Academic functions: Significance / Scope.
Words that belong together
- a wide-ranging review
- wide-ranging analysis
- a wide-ranging discussion
On the page
The book offers a wide-ranging discussion of migration, citizenship, and belonging.
A wide-ranging review can still overlook the detailed mechanisms examined in specialist studies.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- wide-ranging
Usage notes
Attributive or predicative. Wider-ranging and widest-ranging occur; more wide-ranging is also natural. Register: formal. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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