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. Katie Keenan:

   This site is so sprawling that we're able to build on the campus. We're getting better and better at this because it seems like the past couple of years the potential playoff team has been the Super Bowl host city, starting in November we started to build contingencies around each round. It’s no secret that the championship game scenario is the most challenging scenario because it obviously shortened everything.

2. Mitch McConnell:

   The American people are not buying the nonsensical talk of ‘Jim Crow 2.0’ or a voting rights crisis, it’s not a ‘voting rights’ bill. It is a sprawling, sweeping takeover of our democracy.

3. Brock Silvers:

   It wasn’t a change of heart that caused Beijing to pull back its regulatory push on tech companies, it was a concession to economic reality, the goal of furthering state control over sprawling tech empires, however, wasn’t abandoned.

4. 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.

5. 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.