ubiquitous
/juːˈbɪkwɪtəs
/adjective
Present, appearing, or found everywhere: his ubiquitous influence was felt by all the family cowboy hats are ubiquitous among the male singers...
- These days, the programme is so popular and so ubiquitous, that I just tend to keep quiet.
- It's impossible not to be influenced by Leone because his work is ubiquitous.
- We saw the ubiquitous charity shops sprouting everywhere, which is the first sign of decline.
Synonyms
omnipresent, ever-present, present everywhere, everywhere, all-over, all over the place, pervasive, all-pervasive, universal, worldwide, global;
rife, prevalent, predominant, very common, popular, extensive, wide-ranging, far-reaching, inescapable
Derivatives
ubiquitously
- Department stores and commercial chains hardly hold the Netherlands in thrall; you don't find many Netherlanders clamouring to spend their Saturday mornings trolley-piloting the ubiquitously cheap and vast Hema emporiums.
- Colonel Sanders is ubiquitously American, but today's New Zealander, when asked what ‘KFC’ stands for, will intone ‘Kiwi For Chicken’.
- The new agenda of obligatory social aims, reset by some self-declared avant-garde and not by societies themselves, is similar to the socialist one in the never-changing sense that it is to guarantee ubiquitously correct life.
ubiquitousness
- The typefaces which Mr Hong mentions, Zuzana Licko's Filosofia and Mrs Eaves, carry with them only a few years of history, but their ubiquitousness has perhaps resulted in their being branded as ‘trendy’.
- Rather than ascribing desired ubiquitousness to relief from illness, they ascribe it to a process of ‘stimulus generalization.’
- The first is that like so many conservatives, he is able to deflect criticism as alleged liberal media bias - an accusation that is belied by his very ubiquitousness in that media.
Origin
Mid 19th century: from modern Latin ubiquitas (from Latin ubique 'everywhere', from ubi 'where') + -ous.
This was formed from Latin ubique meaning ‘everywhere’, from ubi ‘where’.