Definition of "widespread"
adjective
comparative widerspread or more widespread, superlative widestspread or most widespread
Affecting a large area (e.g. the entire land or body); broad in extent; widely diffused.
Quotations
It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.
1906, Stanley J[ohn] Weyman, chapter I, in Chippinge Borough, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., page 01