sweeping

adjective

Having wide-ranging influence or effect.

adjective

Moving in or as if in a wide curve.

adjective

Indiscriminate; wholesale.

adjective

Overwhelming; complete.

noun

The action of one that sweeps.

noun

Things swept up; refuse.

Carrying everything before it; overwhelming: as, a sweeping majority.

Including or comprehending many individuals or particulars in a single act or assertion; comprehensive; all-including: as, a sweeping charge; a sweeping declaration.

noun

The act of one who or that which sweeps, in any sense; also, the result of such act.

noun

plural Whatever is gathered together by or as by sweeping; rubbish; refuse.