globalEnglishOxford American Thesaurusglobal adjective 1 the global economy: worldwide, international, world, intercontinental; universal. ▷antonyms national, local. 2 a global view of the problem: comprehensive, overall, general, all-inclusive, all-encompassing, encyclopedic, universal, exhaustive, blanket; broad, wide-ranging, far-reaching, extensive, sweeping, cross-disciplinary, interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary. ▷antonyms partial, restricted.