Synonyms for breadth
Most common
range extent scope expanse comprehensiveness broadness width broad-mindedness
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Scope — scope or range, especially of knowledge or skill
2. Broadness
Other
width, broad-mindedness, liberality, beam, wideness dated
Definitions
- n. 1
Scope or range, especially of knowledge or skill.
expand one’s breadth of marketing
- n. 2
The extent or measure of how broad or wide something is; width.
The breadth of the corridor is 4.5 metres.
Related words
- Word family
- breadthen breadthways breadthwise
- Phrases
- hair's breadth finger's breadth acre's breadth
Forms
- Plural
- breadths → scopes, ranges, extents, expanses…
Example sentences
- range Prices range from as low as $30 to as high as $50.
- extent To some extent, you can control the car in a skid.
- scope This subject is not within the scope of our study.
- expanse The night was calm, the sea a vast expanse of black.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| breadth | steady | |
| range | falling | |
| extent | falling | |
| scope | steady | |
| expanse | rising | |
| comprehensiveness | falling |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- size1, beam1
- 5 letters
- range1, scope1, width1
- 6 letters
- extent2
- 7 letters
- expanse2
- 8 letters
- latitude3, wideness
- 9 letters
- amplitude3, largeness2, broadness
- 10 letters
- liberality5
- 11 letters
- catholicity
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (extent2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- envergure
- Español
- envergadura
- Deutsch
- Spannweite