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What is the adjective for sweeping?

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

sweeping
  1. wide, broad, affecting or touching upon many things
  2. Completely overwhelming
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “The State might see fit to make sweeping changes in the fees and tuition of the University.”
      “We would travel to whatever field Dad was working, then explore the local bluff for the day, playing hide-and-seek in the sweeping fields of grain.”
      “High above Kresna, we were following a trail through the foothills of Pirin, and were treated to a sweeping panorama that seemingly extended all the way to Greece.”
sweepable
  1. Suitable for sweeping.
  2. (military) Of a mine: capable of being located by minesweeping.
sweeplike
  1. Characteristic of a sweep (in all senses)
sweepy
  1. Moving with a sweeping motion.
  2. Examples:
    1. “But at last I got it done, and Rowley stood up with rather a red face from tacking the sweepy, lacey thing that had come undone.”
      “In order to 'bend' the elements, the movements needed to be very long and sweepy.”
      “It is difficult to undertake thinning because of the poor recovery volumes and financial returns obtained from these sweepy logs.”
swept
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