Word of the Day: Catachrestical
Cleaning off surfaces, or cleaning away dust, dirt, or litter, as a broom does; moving with swiftness and force; carrying everything before it; including in its scope many persons or things; as, a sweeping flood; a sweeping majority; a sweeping accusation.
Whole Roget’s Thesaurus §50
N. whole, totality, integrity, totalness, entirety, ensemble, collectiveness, unity, completeness, indivisibility, indiscerptibility, integration, embodiment, integer, all, the whole, total, aggregate, one and all, gross amount, sum, sum total, tout ensemble, length and breadth of, alpha and omega, "be all and end all", complex, complexus, lock stock and barrel, bulk, mass, lump, tissue, staple, body, compages, trunk, torso, bole, hull, hulk, skeleton greater part, major part, best part, principal part, main part, essential part &c. (importance), 642, lion's share, benjamin's mess, the long and the short, nearly, all, almost all
Adj. whole, total, integral, entire, complete, one, individual, unbroken, intact, uncut, undivided, unsevered, unclipped, uncropped, unshorn, seamless, undiminished, undemolished, undissolved, undestroyed, unbruised, indivisible, indissoluble, indissolvable, indiscerptible, wholesale, sweeping, comprehensive
Adv. wholly, altogether, totally, entirely, all, all in all, as a whole, wholesale, in a body, collectively, all put together, in the aggregate, in the lump, in the mass, in the gross, in the main, in the long run, en masse, as a body, on the whole, bodily|, en bloc, in extenso, throughout, every inch, substantially
Phr. tout bien ou rien
Completeness Roget’s Thesaurus §52
N. completeness, completion, integration, allness, entirety, perfection, solidity, solidarity, unity, all, ne plus ultra, ideal, limit, complement, supplement, make-weight, filling, up, impletion, saturation, saturity|, high water, high tide, flood tide, spring tide, fill, load, bumper, bellyful, brimmer, sufficiency
V. be complete, come to a head, render complete, complete, fill, charge, load, replenish, make up, make good, piece out, eke out, supply deficiencies, fill up, fill in, fill to the brim, fill the measure of, saturate, go the whole hog, go the whole length, go all lengths
Adj. complete, entire, whole, perfect, full, good, absolute, thorough, plenary, solid, undivided, with all its parts, all- sided, exhaustive, radical, sweeping, thorough-going, dead, regular, consummate, unmitigated, sheer, unqualified, unconditional, free, abundant, brimming, brimful, topful, topfull, chock full, choke full, as full as an egg is of meat, as full as a vetch, saturated, crammed, replete, fraught, laden, full-laden, full-fraught, full-charged, heavy laden, completing, supplemental, supplementary, ascititious
Adv. completely, altogether, outright, wholly, totally, in toto, quite, all out, over head and ears, effectually, for good and all, nicely, fully, through thick and thin, head and shoulders, neck and heel, neck and crop, in all respects, in every respect, at all points, out and out, to all intents and purposes, toto coelo, utterly, clean, clean as a whistle, to the full, to the utmost, to the backbone, hollow, stark, heart and soul, root and branch, down to the ground, to the top of one's bent, as far as possible, a outrance, throughout, from first to last, from beginning to end, from end to end, from one end to the other, from dan to beersheba, from head to foot, from top to toe, from top to bottom, de fond en comble, a fond, a capite ad calcem, ab ovo usque ad mala, fore and aft, every, whit, every inch, cap-a-pie, to the end of the chapter, up to the brim, up to the ears, up to the eyes, as, as can be, on all accounts, sous tous les rapports, with a vengeance, with a witness
Phr. falsus in uno falsus in omnibus, omnem movere lapidem, una scopa nuova spazza bene
Generality Roget’s Thesaurus §78
N. {opp. 79} generality, generalization, # universality, catholicity, catholicism, miscellany, miscellaneousness, dragnet, common run, worldwideness, everyone, everybody, all hands, all the world and his wife, anybody, n or m, all sorts, prevalence, run
V. be general, prevail, be going about, stalk abroad, render general, generalize
Adj. general, generic, collective, broad, comprehensive, sweeping, encyclopedical, widespread, universal, catholic, catholical, common, worldwide, ecumenical, oecumenical, transcendental, prevalent, prevailing, rife, epidemic, besetting, all over, covered with, pan-american, anglican, pan-hellenic, pan-germanic, slavic, panharmonic, every, all, unspecified, impersonal, customary
Adv. whatever, whatsoever, to a man, one and all, generally, always, for better for worse, in general, generally speaking, speaking generally, for the most part, in the long run
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1 KJV and 4 BSB verses contain “Sweeping”
A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.
A destitute leader who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain that leaves no food.
