large in spatial extent or range or scope or quantity; "an extensive Roman settlement in northwest England"; "extended farm lands"; "surgeons with extended experience"; "they suffered extensive damage"
of agriculture; increasing productivity by using large areas with minimal outlay and labor; "producing wheat under extensive conditions"; "agriculture of the extensive type"
friendly and open and willing to talk; "wine made the guest expansive"
marked by exaggerated feelings of euphoria and delusions of grandeur
able or tending to expand or characterized by expansion; "Expansive materials"; "the expansive force of fire"
of behavior that is impressive and ambitious in scale or scope; "an expansive lifestyle"; "in the grand manner"; "collecting on a grand scale"; "heroic undertakings"
beyond the literal or primary sense; "`hot off the press' shows an extended sense of `hot'"
fully extended or stretched forth; "an extended telescope"; "his extended legs reached almost across the small room"; "refused to accept the extended hand"
not on target; "the kick was wide"; "the arrow was wide of the mark"; "a claim that was wide of the truth"
having ample fabric; "the current taste for wide trousers"; "a full skirt"
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"
great in degree; "won by a wide margin"
to or over a great extent or range; far; "wandered wide through many lands"; "he traveled widely"
with or by a broad space; "stand with legs wide apart"; "ran wide around left end"
far from the intended target; "the arrow went wide of the mark"; "a bullet went astray and killed a bystander"
to the fullest extent possible; "open your eyes wide"; "with the throttle wide open"