The phrase "widely used" implies that a certain item or idea is popular and commonly utilized. Its antonyms, on the other hand, connote a sense of rarity, novelty or unpopularity. Some words that may serve as antonyms of "widely used" are neglected, unknown, unfamiliar, uncommon, unaccustomed, infrequently used, rarely utilized or obscure. Neglected implies that something is overlooked, ignored or not given much attention. Unknown means that something is not known or recognized by many people. Uncommon and unfamiliar imply that something is rare and not commonly found. Obscure suggests that something is unknown beyond a small circle of people.

What are the antonyms for Widely used?

• adj.

  • traditional
  • abnormal
  ,
  • different
  ,
  • extraordinary
  ,
  • fresh
  ,
  • infrequent
  ,
  • irregular
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  • modern
  ,
  • new
  ,
  • rare
  ,
  • uncommon
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  • unestablished
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  • unfixed
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  • untraditional
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  • unusual
  .

Famous quotes with Widely used

• At the time when I was conducting my research there was no known method for taking the guinea pig's temperature. I demonstrated a technique which is now widely used.

  Charles Jules Henry Nicole
• Arbitrage proof has since been widely used throughout finance and economics.

  Merton Miller
• The criminalization of marijuana did not prevent marijuana from becoming the most widely used illegal substance in the United States and many other countries. But it did result in extensive costs and negative consequences.

  George Soros
• Why not treat marijuana in the same way as alcohol and tobacco? It's so widely used, and it has medical purposes that are denied by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Numerous doctors and private studies have clearly shown that medicinal marijuana is a painkiller that can help cancer and AIDS patients, and can also be used to treat glaucoma. The latest breakthrough is that it helps Alzheimer's patients.

  Jesse Ventura
• The Greeks, who were apparently strong on visual aids, originated the term stigma to refer to bodily signs designed to expose something unusual and bad about the moral status of the signifier. The signs were cut or burnt into the body and advertised that the bearer was a slave, a criminal, or a traitor — a blemished person, ritually polluted, to be avoided, especially in public places. Later, in Christian times, two layers of metaphor were added to the term : the first referred to bodily signs of holy grace that took the form of eruptive blossoms on the skin; the second, a medical allusion to this religious allusion, referred to bodily signs of physical disorder. Today the term is widely used in something like the original literal sense, but is applied more to the disgrace itself than to the bodily evidence of it. Furthermore, shifts have occurred in the kinds of disgrace that arouse concern. Students, however, have made little effort to describe the structural preconditions of stigma, or even to provide a definition of the concept itself. It seems necessary, therefore, to try at the beginning to sketch in some very general assumptions and definitions.

  Erving Goffman

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