sprawling

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sprawling

verb

  1. gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of sprawl

adjective more sprawling · most sprawling

  1. That sprawls; that spreads in a disorderly fashion. a sprawling cityscape

noun sprawlings

  1. The act of one who sprawls. Having feasted our souls with this sublime spectacle, we ministered to the wants of the body by a plentiful breakfast, and about noon we commenced the descent, rendered ludicrous enough by various tumblings and sprawlings on the part of the more inexpert mountaineers.

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Closest in meaning: sprawly, straggly, untidy, extended, straggling, complex, wide, broad, vast, manifold, extensive, spreading, stretching, extending, expanding, expansive

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adj that sprawls; that spreads in a disorderly fashion

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@misc{sprawling_2026,
  title = {sprawling},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sprawling},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}