広がり・拡がり|ひろがりhirogari[0]heiban (flat)

1. nounspread; span; expanse; extent
   彼かれは広ひろがりを見みせる汚職おしょくスキャンダルで摘発てきはつされた最初さいしょの国会議員こっかいぎいんです。↗

   He is the first national politician to be named in a widening corruption scandal.

• Synonym拡大かくだいNeutralRefers to growth in scale or scope, as in 「被害の拡大」; 「広がり」 stresses the breadth of something spreading outward.
• Synonym拡張かくちょうNeutralExtending facilities or territory, as in 「道路拡張」; 「広がり」 instead stresses the breadth of something spreading out.
• Synonym伸展しんてんWrittenWritten/formal prose: stretching and extending power or influence; 「広がり」 centers on the range and breadth of outward spread.
• Related伸長しんちょうWrittenWritten/formal prose: growth in length or scale, as in 「売上の伸長」; 「広がり」 focuses on breadth rather than growth.
• Related膨張ぼうちょうNeutralSwelling in volume or a sharp rise in numbers, as in 「熱膨張」; 「広がり」 stresses the area something spreads over.
• Related増大ぞうだいNeutralAn increase in quantity or degree, as in 「負担の増大」; 「広がり」 stresses the breadth of outward spread.
• Antonym縮小しゅくしょうNeutralThe opposite of 「広がり」 on the expand–shrink axis: shrinking in scale, cutting back.
• Antonym収束しゅうそくWrittenWritten/formal prose: contrasts with 「広がり」 as drawing in versus spreading out — settling, subsiding, coming to an end.
• Antonym狭まりNeutralA narrowing of range; contrasts with 「広がり」 in width — growing narrower rather than wider.

Use 「広がり」 for the range or breadth of something spreading outward, as in 「感染の広がり」. For growth in scale pick 「拡大」, for extending facilities 「拡張」, for swelling in volume 「膨張」. The main antonyms are 「縮小」 and 「収束」.

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1. 広ひろがること。
2. 広ひろがった場所ばしょ。
3. ひろがるの連用形れんようけい。