Word Meanings - DIFFUSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To pour out and cause to spread, as a fluid; to cause to flow on all sides; to send out, or extend, in all directions; to spread; to circulate; to disseminate; to scatter; as to diffuse information. Thence diffuse His good to worlds and

Additional info about word: DIFFUSE

To pour out and cause to spread, as a fluid; to cause to flow on all sides; to send out, or extend, in all directions; to spread; to circulate; to disseminate; to scatter; as to diffuse information. Thence diffuse His good to worlds and ages infinite. Milton. We find this knowledge diffused among all civilized nations. Whewell. Syn. -- To expand; spread; circulate; extend; scatter; disperse; publish; proclaim.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DIFFUSE)

• Expand
• Swell
• dilate
• spread
• extend
• open
• diffuse
• develop
• unfold
• enlarge
• amplify
• Lengthy
• Diffuse
• prolix
• tedious
• long-drawn
• verbose
• Long
• Protracted
• produced
• dilatory
• lengthy
• extensive
• far-reaching
• Pervade
• Permeate
• fill
• saturate
• color
• tinge
• Prolix
• circumlocutory
• prosaic
• minute
• toilsome
• wordy

Related words: (words related to DIFFUSE)

• COLORMAN
  A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds.
• SPREADINGLY
  , adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton.
• PRODUCIBILITY
  The quality or state of being producible. Barrow.
• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
• PRODUCEMENT
  Production.
• UNFOLDER
  One who, or that which, unfolds.
• PROLIXLY
  In a prolix manner. Dryden.
• CIRCUMLOCUTORY
  Characterised by circumlocution; periphrastic. Shenstone. The officials set to work in regular circumlocutory order. Chambers's Journal.
• DEVELOPMENT
  The series of changes which animal and vegetable organisms undergo in their passage from the embryonic state to maturity, from a lower to a higher state of organization. The act or process of changing or expanding an expression into another
• EXTENDLESSNESS
  Unlimited extension. An . . . extendlessness of excursions. Sir. M. Hale.
• COLORATE
  Colored. Ray.
• PROTRACTIVE
  Drawing out or lengthening in time; prolonging; continuing; delaying. He suffered their protractive arts. Dryden.
• COLORIMETRY
  The quantitative determination of the depth of color of a substance. 2. A method of quantitative chemical analysis based upon the comparison of the depth of color of a solution with that of a standard liquid.
• DIFFUSE
  To pour out and cause to spread, as a fluid; to cause to flow on all sides; to send out, or extend, in all directions; to spread; to circulate; to disseminate; to scatter; as to diffuse information. Thence diffuse His good to worlds and
• DIFFUSED
  Spread abroad; dispersed; loose; flowing; diffuse. It grew to be a widely diffused opinion. Hawthorne. -- Dif*fus"ed*ly, adv. -- Dif*fus"ed*ness, n.
• UNFOLDMENT
  The acct of unfolding, or the state of being unfolded. The extreme unfoldment of the instinctive powers. C. Morris.
• EXTENDANT
  Displaced. Ogilvie.
• SWELLTOAD
  A swellfish.
• SPREAD-EAGLED
  1. To place in a spread-eagle position, especially as a means of punishment. 2. being in a position with the arms and legs extended fully.
• COLORADO BEETLE
  A yellowish beetle , with ten longitudinal, black, dorsal stripes. It has migrated eastwards from its original habitat in Colorado, and is very destructive to the potato plant; -- called also potato beetle and potato bug. See Potato beetle.
• CONTINGENT
  Dependent for effect on something that may or may not occur; as, a contingent estate. If a contingent legacy be left to any one when he attains, or if he attains, the age of twenty-one. Blackstone. (more info) touch on all sides, to happen; con-
• CONCOLOR
  Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne.
• UPSWELL
  To swell or rise up.
• ISABELLA; ISABELLA COLOR
  A brownish yellow color. (more info) Spanish princess Isabella, daughter of king Philip II., in allusion to the color assumed by her shift, which she wore without change from
• BEDSPREAD
  A bedquilt; a counterpane; a coverlet.
• NONDEVELOPMENT
  Failure or lack of development.
• DISPREAD
  To spread abroad, or different ways; to spread apart; to open; as, the sun dispreads his beams. Spenser.
• OVERPRODUCTION
  Excessive production; supply beyond the demand. J. S. Mill.