modified
extensive, general, sweeping, broad, comprehensive, far-reaching, widely accepted, boundless, popular, public, unrestricted, unlimited, on a large scale, over-all.
Antonyms secret*, obscure*, limited.
See widespread in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
Spread out over a large area:
Covering a wide scope:
Occurring quite often:
Most generally existing or encountered at a given time:
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