Usually means: Extensive in scope or effect.
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  1. far-reaching: Merriam-Webster
  2. far-reaching: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. far-reaching: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. far-reaching, far-reaching: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Far-Reaching, Far-reaching, far-reaching: Wordnik
  6. far-reaching: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. far-reaching: Wiktionary
  8. far-reaching: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. far-reaching: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. far-reaching: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. far-reaching: Dictionary.com
  12. far-reaching: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. far-reaching: Rhymezone
  14. far-reaching: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. far-reaching: FreeDictionary.org
  16. far-reaching: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ adjective:  Having a broad range, scope, or influence.

Similar:
comprehensive, extensive, sweeping, farreaching, broad-reaching, extended, wide-reaching, broad, wide-ranging, broad-ranging, more...

Opposite:
limited, narrow, restricted, local, short-range

Types:
sweeping, drastic, draconian, more...

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Similar:
comprehensive, extensive, sweeping, farreaching, broad-reaching, extended, wide-reaching, broad, wide-ranging, broad-ranging, more...

Opposite:
limited, narrow, restricted, local, short-range

Types:
sweeping, drastic, draconian, more...



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