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sown

[sohn] / soʊn /
ADJECTIVE
covered
Synonyms
STRONGEST
carpeted dotted overgrown
STRONG
bejeweled flowered overspread peppered powdered spangled spattered spotted starred studded
WEAK
dusted over flowery scattered with spread with sprinkled over starry with strewn with
Antonyms
WEAK
bare empty exposed open passed over revealed unfurnished unheeded unnoticed
ADJECTIVE
planted
Synonyms
STRONGEST
implanted
STRONG
seeded
ADJECTIVE
scattered
Synonyms
STRONGEST
dispersed distributed sprinkled
STRONG
diffuse diffused disorganized disseminated rambling separate separated sowed strewed
WEAK
disorderly messy spread out
Antonyms
STRONG
connected together united
WEAK
assembled concentrated condensed gathered organized

Example Sentences

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This time the divisions were sown by hate speech reforms introduced by the centre-left Labor government after the Bondi Beach attack.

From BBC • Feb. 7, 2026

The middle-aged person consolidates his gains and harvests what he’s sown.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

Yet so much of the media coverage around Kennedy, especially lately, has focused more on his personality and lurid life history rather than the chaos and destruction he has sown.

From Salon • Nov. 29, 2025

Those sown in August are currently just tiny blue-green shoots.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2025

Com had to be sown too, the land was ready.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.