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Exact Match:

open

information that has become public; "all the reports were out in the open"; "the facts had been brought to the surface"

a tournament in which both professionals and amateurs may play

a clear or unobstructed space or expanse of land or water; "finally broke out of the forest into the open"

ready for business; "the stores are open"

not having been filled; "the job is still open"

without undue constriction as from e.g. tenseness or inhibition; "the clarity and resonance of an open tone"; "her natural and open response"

affording unobstructed entrance and exit; not shut or closed; "an open door"; "they left the door open"

affording free passage or access; "open drains"; "the road is open to traffic"; "open ranks"

used of mouth or eyes; "keep your eyes open"; "his mouth slightly opened"

having no protecting cover or enclosure; "an open boat"; "an open fire"; "open sports cars"

(set theory) of an interval that contains neither of its endpoints

open to or in view of all; "an open protest"; "an open letter to the editor"

accessible to all; "open season"; "an open economy"

not sealed or having been unsealed; "the letter was already open"; "the opened package lay on the table"

not brought to a conclusion; subject to further thought; "an open question"; "our position on this bill is still undecided"; "our lawsuit is still undetermined"

make available; "This opens up new possibilities"

become available; "an opportunity opened up"

make the opening move; "Kasparov opened with a standard opening"

cause to open or to become open; "Mary opened the car door"

become open; "The door opened"

display the contents of a file or start an application as on a computer

begin or set in action, of meetings, speeches, recitals, etc.; "He opened the meeting with a long speech"

start to operate or function or cause to start operating or functioning; "open a business"

have an opening or passage or outlet; "The bedrooms open into the hall"

Synonyms:

• Spartan,
• abandoned,
• aboveboard,
• absolute,
• accented,
• acceptable,
• accessible,
• activate,
• admissible,
• admissive,
• admissory,
• adumbrate,
• advertise,
• affirmed,
• afford,
• agape,
• agreeable,
• air,
• ajar,
• aloof,
• altruistic,
• alveolar,
• ambiguous,
• amenable,
• amiable,
• announce,
• announced,
• apical,
• apico-alveolar,
• apico-dental,
• apparent,
• approachable,
• appropriate,
• arguable,
• articulated,
• artless,
• ascetic,
• assimilated,
• at issue,
• attainable,
• austere,
• authentic,
• available,
• back,
• bald,
• bare,
• barytone,
• be a gas,
• be a hit,
• begin,
• beholdable,
• beneficent,
• bighearted,
• bilabial,
• bill,
• billow,
• blatant,
• bluff,
• blunt,
• bomb,
• bona fide,
• born yesterday,
• bounteous,
• bountiful,
• branch,
• branch out,
• brazen,
• breach,
• break,
• break the seal,
• bring out,
• bring to light,
• broach,
• broad,
• broadcast,
• broken,
• brought to notice,
• brusque,
• cacuminal,
• campestral,
• campestrian,
• candid,
• central,
• cerebral,
• champaign,
• charitable,
• check,
• checked,
• childlike,
• chink,
• circulated,
• clear,
• cleared,
• cleave,
• close,
• come-at-able,
• commence,
• common,
• common knowledge,
• common property,
• commonplace,
• communicate,
• communicative,
• conditional,
• conditioned,
• confiding,
• consonant,
• consonantal,
• conspicuous,
• contingent,
• continuant,
• contribute,
• conversable,
• cordial,
• cover,
• crack,
• crevasse,
• current,
• cut,
• cut apart,
• cut open,
• debatable,
• declared,
• dehiscent,
• deltoid,
• demonstrative,
• dental,
• denuded,
• dependent,
• depending,
• deploy,
• deserted,
• detached,
• detectable,
• develop,
• diffused,
• dilate,
• direct,
• discernible,
• disclose,
• disclosed,
• disconnected,
• discontinuous,
• discover,
• discrete,
• dismask,
• dispart,
• disperse,
• display,
• disposed,
• disrupt,
• disseminated,
• dissimilated,
• distend,
• distributed,
• ditch,
• divaricate,
• divide,
• divulge,
• dorsal,
• downright,
• dramatize,
• draw the veil,
• dry,
• dubious,
• dubitable,
• dull,
• effusive,
• embark,
• employable,
• equivocal,
• establish,
• evident,
• exhibit,
• expand,
• expansive,
• explain,
• explicit,
• expose,
• exposed,
• exposed to view,
• extend,
• extended,
• extensive,
• extroverted,
• fail,
• fair,
• fair and square,
• fan,
• fan out,
• fan-shape,
• fan-shaped,
• fanlike,
• fanned,
• fanning,
• feature,
• findable,
• fissure,
• fit,
• flabelliform,
• flagrant,
• flare,
• flared,
• flaring,
• flat,
• flexible,
• flop,
• fly open,
• forsaken,
• forthright,
• foursquare,
• fracture,
• frank,
• frankhearted,
• free,
• free hand,
• free-acting,
• free-going,
• free-moving,
• free-speaking,
• free-spoken,
• free-tongued,
• freehanded,
• freehearted,
• friendly,
• front,
• full,
• furnish,
• furrow,
• gap,
• gaping,
• gapped,
• gash,
• generous,
• genial,
• genuine,
• get,
• get going,
• get under way,
• getatable,
• gettable,
• giving,
• glaring,
• glide,
• glossal,
• glottal,
• godforsaken,
• good-faith,
• gossipy,
• gracious,
• greathearted,
• groove,
• guileless,
• guttural,
• handsome,
• hanging out,
• hard,
• headline,
• heart-to-heart,
• hearty,
• heavy,
• high,
• hint,
• hole,
• homely,
• homespun,
• honest,
• hospitable,
• humanitarian,
• idle,
• illimitable,
• imbibitory,
• impart,
• impressionable,
• in circulation,
• in evidence,
• in full view,
• in plain sight,
• in print,
• in question,
• in suspense,
• in the balance,
• in view,
• inaugurate,
• incise,
• inclined,
• incoherent,
• inconsistent,
• indecisive,
• influenceable,
• ingenu,
• ingenuous,
• ingestive,
• initiate,
• innocent,
• insight,
• intonated,
• introduce,
• intromissive,
• intromittent,
• invitatory,
• inviting,
• kick off,
• labial,
• labiodental,
• labiovelar,
• large,
• largehearted,
• lateral,
• launch,
• lavish,
• lax,
• lay bare,
• lay open,
• lean,
• leisure,
• leisured,
• let daylight in,
• let out,
• liable,
• liberal,
• light,
• limitless,
• lingual,
• liquid,
• low,
• made public,
• magnanimous,
• make a hit,
• make known,
• make plain,
• malleable,
• manifest,
• mantle,
• matter-of-fact,
• melodramatize,
• mid,
• monophthongal,
• moot,
• mount,
• movable,
• munificent,
• muted,
• naive,
• naked,
• narrow,
• nasal,
• nasalized,
• natural,
• navigable,
• neat,
• neighborly,
• newsy,
• no strings,
• nonadherent,
• nonadhesive,
• noncoherent,
• noncohesive,
• nonimmune,
• noticeable,
• obnoxious,
• observable,
• obtainable,
• obvious,
• occlusive,
• offer,
• on the level,
• on the square,
• on the up-and-up,
• ope,
• open a show,
• open air,
• open and aboveboard,
• open as day,
• open fire,
• open to,
• open to all,
• open to view,
• open up,
• open-handed,
• open-minded,
• openhanded,
• openhearted,
• operative,
• out-of-doors,
• outcropping,
• outdoors,
• outgoing,
• outland,
• outside,
• outspoken,
• outspread,
• outstretch,
• outstretched,
• overgrow,
• overrun,
• overspread,
• overt,
• oxytone,
• palatal,
• palatalized,
• palpable,
• part,
• passable,
• patent,
• patulous,
• peeled,
• pendent,
• pending,
• penetrable,
• perceivable,
• perceptible,
• perfect,
• perforate,
• persuadable,
• persuasible,
• pervious,
• pharyngeal,
• pharyngealized,
• phonemic,
• phonetic,
• phonic,
• pierce,
• pitch,
• pitched,
• plain,
• plain-speaking,
• plain-spoken,
• plastic,
• pleasing,
• plenary,
• pliable,
• pliant,
• posttonic,
• practicable,
• predisposed,
• premiere,
• present,
• preview,
• princely,
• problematic,
• proclaimed,
• procurable,
• produce,
• profuse,
• prone,
• propagated,
• proper,
• prosaic,
• prosing,
• provide,
• public,
• publish,
• published,
• pull out,
• pure,
• put on,
• raise,
• raise the curtain,
• ramify,
• reachable,
• receivable,
• receptible,
• receptive,
• recipient,
• recognizable,
• release,
• rent,
• reported,
• responsive,
• retired,
• retroflex,
• reveal,
• revealed,
• rift,
• ringent,
• rip,
• rive,
• roomy,
• round,
• rounded,
• rupture,
• rustic,
• scenarize,
• securable,
• seeable,
• self-revealing,
• self-revelatory,
• semiretired,
• semivowel,
• sensitive,
• separate,
• set in motion,
• set the stage,
• set up,
• severe,
• shadow,
• show,
• show forth,
• show up,
• showing,
• simple,
• simple-speaking,
• simplehearted,
• simpleminded,
• sincere,
• single-hearted,
• single-minded,
• sit,
• slash,
• slit,
• slot,
• sober,
• sociable,
• soft,
• sonant,
• spacious,
• spare,
• splay,
• splayed,
• splaying,
• split,
• spraddle,
• spraddled,
• spraddling,
• sprangle,
• sprangled,
• sprangling,
• sprawl,
• sprawling,
• sprawly,
• spread,
• spread like wildfire,
• spread out,
• spreading,
• spring open,
• square,
• square-dealing,
• square-shooting,
• stage,
• star,
• stark,
• start,
• stated,
• stintless,
• stopped,
• straight,
• straight-out,
• straight-shooting,
• straightforward,
• stressed,
• stretch out,
• stretched-out,
• strip bare,
• stripped,
• strong,
• suasible,
• subject,
• succeed,
• suggest,
• suggestible,
• suitable,
• surd,
• susceptible,
• suspenseful,
• swayable,
• swell,
• swing open,
• syllabic,
• talkative,
• tap,
• tear,
• tear open,
• telecast,
• televised,
• tenantless,
• tense,
• tenuous,
• the open,
• the out-of-doors,
• theatricalize,
• thick,
• throaty,
• throw open,
• to be had,
• to be seen,
• tonal,
• tonic,
• transparent,
• trench,
• trustful,
• trusting,
• try out,
• twangy,
• unaccented,
• unadhesive,
• unadorned,
• unaffected,
• unbar,
• unbarred,
• unblock,
• unblocked,
• unbolt,
• unbolted,
• unbooked,
• unbound,
• unbounded,
• uncertain,
• unchecked,
• uncircumscribed,
• unclassified,
• uncloak,
• unclog,
• unclogged,
• unclosed,
• unclothe,
• unclouded,
• uncluttered,
• uncoherent,
• uncohesive,
• uncommitted,
• unconcealed,
• unconditional,
• unconditioned,
• unconfined,
• unconnected,
• unconstrained,
• uncork,
• uncounted,
• uncover,
• uncovered,
• undecided,
• undefended,
• undetermined,
• undisguised,
• undissembled,
• undissembling,
• undo,
• undrape,
• unencumbered,
• unequivocal,
• unestablished,
• unfasten,
• unfastened,
• unfilled,
• unfixed,
• unfold,
• unfolded,
• unfortified,
• unfurl,
• ungrudging,
• unguarded,
• unhampered,
• unhidden,
• unhindered,
• unimaginative,
• unimpeded,
• uninhabited,
• uninhibited,
• unjoined,
• unkennel,
• unlatch,
• unlimited,
• unlock,
• unlocked,
• unmanned,
• unmask,
• unmeasured,
• unobstructed,
• unoccupied,
• unpack,
• unpeopled,
• unpopulated,
• unprotected,
• unqualified,
• unrepressed,
• unreserved,
• unresolved,
• unrestrained,
• unrestricted,
• unreticent,
• unroll,
• unrounded,
• unscheduled,
• unscreen,
• unseal,
• unsealed,
• unsecretive,
• unselfish,
• unsettled,
• unsheathe,
• unsheltered,
• unshrinking,
• unshroud,
• unshut,
• unsigned,
• unsilent,
• unsophisticated,
• unsparing,
• unstaffed,
• unstinted,
• unstinting,
• unstop,
• unstopped,
• unstressed,
• unsuppressed,
• unsuspicious,
• untaken,
• untenacious,
• untenanted,
• untended,
• untie,
• untold,
• unvarnished,
• unveil,
• unwary,
• unwrap,
• up for grabs,
• up-and-up,
• usable,
• vacant,
• velar,
• veritable,
• viewable,
• visible,
• visual,
• vocalic,
• vocoid,
• voiced,
• voiceless,
• vowel,
• vowellike,
• warm,
• warmhearted,
• weak,
• welcoming,
• well-known,
• wide,
• wide open,
• wide-open,
• widely known,
• widen,
• widespread,
• willing,
• within reach,
• without,
• without strings,
• witnessable,
• yawning,
• yield