pervasive
B2CEFR level
40/100Rarity: uncommon
NeutralRegister
General adjective
Spreading widely throughout an area or a group of people.
A pervasive cynicism about public institutions coloured every answer in the survey.
Business adjective
Spread widely and present throughout.
The logo became so pervasive that it started to feel generic and lose its cachet.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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