WIDE
Definition:
- [adverb] with or by a broad space; "stand with legs wide apart"; "ran wide around left end"
- [adverb] to the fullest extent possible; "open your eyes wide"; "with the throttle wide open"
- [adverb] far from the intended target; "the arrow went wide of the mark"; "a bullet went astray and killed a bystander"
Synonyms: astray
- [adverb] to or over a great extent or range; far; "wandered wide through many lands"; "he traveled widely"
Synonyms: ly
- [adjective] having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other; "wide roads"; "a wide necktie"; "wide margins"; "three feet wide"; "a river two miles broad"; "broad shoulders"; "a broad river"
Synonyms: broad
- [adjective] broad in scope or content; "across-the-board pay increases"; "an all-embracing definition"; "blanket sanctions against human-rights violators"; "an invention with broad applications"; "a panoptic study of Soviet nationality"- T.G.Winner; "granted him wide powers"
Synonyms: across-the-board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, blanket, broad, encompassing, panoptic
- [adjective] (used of eyes) fully open or extended; "listened in round-eyed wonder"; "stared with wide eyes"
Synonyms: round-eyed, -eyed
- [adjective] very large in expanse or scope; "a broad lawn"; "the wide plains"; "a spacious view"; "spacious skies"
Synonyms: broad, spacious
- [adjective] great in degree; "won by a wide margin"
- [adjective] great in range or scope; "an extended vocabulary"; "surgeons with extended experience"; "extensive examples of picture writing"; "suffered extensive damage"; "a wide selection"
Synonyms: extended, extensive
- [adjective] having ample fabric; "the current taste for wide trousers"; "a full skirt"
Synonyms: -cut, full
- [adjective] not on target; "the kick was wide"; "the arrow was wide of the mark"; "a claim that was wide of the truth"
Synonyms: of the mark
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