Broadening Synonyms and Antonyms

Extend in scope or range or area
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. widening
  2. extending
  3. expanding
Antonyms:
  1. restricting
  2. specializing
  3. decreasing
  4. narrowing
To make or become broad or broader
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. widening
The act of making something wider
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. widening
Antonyms:
  1. narrowing
Vary in order to spread risk or to expand
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. diversifying

Words Related to Broadening

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Broadening Sentence Examples

  • It would require many a volume to tell of what they have done for civilization, freedom, the exploration of unknown regions, the bringing to light of ancient literatures, the founding of the science of comparative religion, the broadening of the horizon of Christian thought in the homelands, and the bringing of distant peoples into the brotherhood of nations.

  • This fact is illustrated by the broadening of river mouths and estuaries at this time, and the beginning of the formation of the Zuider Zee.

  • The search for the motor home is broadening out but so far, no sightings.

  • The outcome of this period of depression was a broadening of his outlook on the problems which he had set himself to solve.

  • Elaboration in the form of the feelers, often a secondary sexual character in male insects, may result from a distal broadening of the segments, so that the appendage becomes serrate, or from the development of processes bearing sensory organs, so that the structure is pinnate or feather-like.

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