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Definition of diffuse :
1. Poured out; widely spread; not restrained; copious; full; esp., of style, opposed to concise or terse; verbose; prolix; as, a diffuse style; a diffuse writer.
2. To pass by spreading every way, to diffuse itself.
3. 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.
Synonyms:
subdued, strew, rotate, hand out, pervade, bottom, balmy, filter, riddle, dish out, send, mete out, imbue, move, allot, thin, fall into place, penetrate, expand, transmit, pass out, cushy, indulgent, mobilize, dispense, open, easy, shell out, fan out, easygoing, deal, fathom, come home, overspread, dawn, interpenetrate, sink in, gentle, discursive, spread out, unfold, lot, dispel, screen, flaccid, go around, dissipate, dot, infiltrate, splay, air, give out, pass on, perforate, soak, permeate, disseminate, dole out, sonant, lenient, parcel out, piano, pass around, circle, deal out, circularise, string out, get across, prolix, soft, diffused, stagger, broadcast, mild, voiced, mobilise, circulate, click, delicate, dust, get through, wide, flabby, spread, break up, sprinkle, circularize, beam, verbose, wordy, administer, propagate, turn out, percolate, hue
scatter (part of speech: verb)
disorder, disintegrate, radiate, evanesce, dole, diffract, dissolve, detach, dislocate, disperse, scatter, diverge, distribute, disburse, separate, evaporate, refract, disconnect
shapeless (part of speech: adjective)
featureless, amorphous, indeterminate, formless, indefinite, indistinct, chaotic, characterless, shapeless
scattered (part of speech: adjective)
disintegrated, diffractive, dispersed, dislocated, divergent, distributed, scattered, evanescent, disconnected, disjoint, radiated, separated, detached, disorderly, refracted
Usage examples:
- Instead of the wagon toiling slowly in the rear of weary axemen, we see the long and well- appointed railroad train sweep by with the speed of the hurricane, bearing the wealth of States, and doing more in the course of twenty- four hours to diffuse civilization and luxury than our ancestors could have accomplished in as many years. - "School History of North Carolina", John W. Moore.
- " Be as diffuse as you please. - "David Elginbrod", George MacDonald.
- Hence he is diffuse, where he ought to be urgent. - "The Grammar of English Grammars", Goold Brown.