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What is the adjective for sprawl?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb sprawl which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

sprawling
  1. That sprawls
  2. Expansive; extensive
  3. Synonyms:
      4. straggling, spreading, extensive, expansive, rambling, straggly, scattered, strewn, unplanned, spread out, here and there, all over the place, stringy … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “A typical metropolitan region in the United States consists of a central city of several hundred thousand residents plus sprawling suburbs.”
sprawly
  1. (colloquial) sprawling.
  2. Examples:
      3. “He took it, looked at the handwriting, which was thick and sprawly and not familiar to him, and laid it beside his plate.”
      “Each of its sprawly legs is of a different colour, as if tricked out for some cabaret performance.”
      “The myth of our sprawly, paved-over cities and towns is that we've driven native animals out and stolen their habitat.”
sprawlier
  1. comparative form of sprawly: more sprawly
sprawliest
  1. superlative form of sprawly: most sprawly
sprawled
  1. simple past tense and past participle of sprawl
  2. Synonyms:
      3. reclined, lied, lay, laid, lounged, slumped, lolled, flopped, slouched, extended, straddled, lay down, lain down, lay back, lain back, stretched out, spread out, lay spread-eagle, lain spread-eagle, draped oneself, stretched over, rested, reposed, leaned back, relaxed, basked, stretched, straught, leaned, leant, couched, spread-eagled, stretched oneself, stretched oneself out, lazed, loafed, kicked back, draped oneself over, laid down, tilted back, lazed around, lain about, lay about, put your feet up, slept, drowsed, let down, slumbered, napped, dozed … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “My thoughts flickered back to the night, headlights slewing across the dark tarmac, the body sprawled like a broken bird.”
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