Synonyms for sprawling
sprawl·ing

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1. sprawl, sprawlingadjective

   an ungainly posture with arms and legs spread about

   Synonyms:
   conurbation, sprawl, urban sprawl

   Antonyms:
   tidy

2. sprawling, straggling, rambling, stragglyadjective

   spreading out in different directions

   "sprawling handwriting"; "straggling branches"; "straggly hair"

   Synonyms:
   wandering(a), rambling, winding, straggly, discursive, excursive, digressive, meandering(a), straggling

   Antonyms:
   tidy

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1. lounge, ramble, slouch

   sit around;lazy

   "the boys were sprawling around in gym class"

   Submitted by anonymous on November 17, 2019  

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1. List of paraphrases for "sprawling":

   complex

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1. Ko Sai:

   We just heard a loud noise sounding like thunder and saw that the huge mountain collapsed and a huge wave of rubble was moving and sprawling on a wide area, it was just like a nightmare.

2. Rod Wheeler:

   Cydney Ireland said. The sprawling, 58,000-student main campus in downtown Columbus is one of the nation's largest. Fox News contributor Rod Wheeler, a former Washington DC homicide detective and an Ohio State University alum, said the school's police department is highly trained. People don’t need to panic.

3. John Avlon:

   But Republicans controlled the state legislature. They weren't about to make the congressional districts more representative of the actual electorate. No. So they went to work drawing districts that artificially increased their own advantage, connecting suburban districts with sprawling, rural communities, consolidating minority-heavy areas and generally painting Texas red.

4. John Parker:

   Their dogged determination and skilled investigative techniques were crucial in exposing and dissecting this sprawling corruption scheme.

5. Devin Nunes:

   Providing a defensive briefing, like the one given to Senator Feinstein, is a typical response to these kinds of situations, the refusal to give the Trump campaign a defensive briefing, and instead opening a sprawling counter-intelligence investigation of American citizens, is one of many alarming ways that intelligence leaders drastically diverged from normal procedures in their Trump campaign investigation.