Antonyms for diffuse

Grammar : Adj

Spell : verb dih-fyooz; adjective dih-fyoos

Phonetic Transcription : verb dɪˈfyuz; adjective dɪˈfyus

Definition of diffuse

Origin : 1520s (transitive), 1650s (intransitive), from Latin diffusus, past participle of diffundere "to pour out or away" (see diffusion). Related: Diffused; diffusing.

adj spread out
adj wordy

Example sentences :

Flora, who had seemed enchanting in all she said and thought, was diffuse and silly.
Extract from : « Little Dorrit » by Charles Dickens

Knowledge is not necessarily light; and it is light, not knowledge, that we have to diffuse.
Extract from : « A Dish Of Orts » by George MacDonald

They diffuse what is known and forget what remains to be known.
Extract from : « Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle » by H. N. Brailsford

The message was explicit, and, in the point of affection, diffuse.
Extract from : « The Prisoner » by Alice Brown

A soft glow seemed to diffuse from the man's clothing and body.
Extract from : « The Whispering Spheres » by Russell Robert Winterbotham

One of the complaints often made against Euclid is that he is ‘diffuse’.
Extract from : « The Legacy of Greece » by Various

This is the religion, to diffuse which, strenuous efforts are now making in this country.
Extract from : « Fox's Book of Martyrs » by John Foxe

And the diffuse fury in him coalesced and burst into novalike flame.
Extract from : « Alarm Clock » by Everett B. Cole

Thus the awareness, as diffuse as it still was, of time got reinforced.
Extract from : « The Civilization of Illiteracy » by Mihai Nadin

About this time there was also a disposition to diffuse education.
Extract from : « The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation » by Charles Roger

Synonyms for diffuse

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