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sprawling
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun sprawling has 1 sense
- sprawling(n = noun.attribute) sprawl - an ungainly posture with arms and legs spread about; Array is a kind of attitude, position, posture
Derived form verb sprawl1
Adjective sprawling has 1 sense
- sprawling(s = adj.all) rambling, straggling, straggly - spreading out in different directions; "sprawling handwriting"; "straggling branches"; "straggly hair"
THESAURUS
sprawling
accumbent, couchant, couche, crawling, decumbent, deltoid, draped, fan-shape, fan-shaped, fanlike, fanned, fanning, flabelliform, flared, flaring, flat, groveling, lolling, lounging, lying, open, outspread, outstretched, patulous, procumbent, prone, prostrate, reclining, recumbent, reposing, resupine, splay, splayed, splaying, spraddled, spraddling, sprangled, sprangling, sprawled, sprawly, spread, spreading, stretched-out, supine, unfolded, wide-open, widespread
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