widespread

Academic Word List, sublist 8.

About 18.65 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Affecting, or found throughout, a large area (e.g. the entire land or body); broad in extent; widely diffused.

   widespread belief

2. adjective Spread far apart.

Similar words

general far-flung distributed wide-ranging comprehensive across-the-board far-reaching broad-based overall all-embracing

Often followed by

use in and belief acceptance among support interest that