About The Word Expansive
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Expansive Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Expansive?
[adj] friendly and open and willing to talk; "wine made the guest expansive"
[adj] (psychiatry) marked by exaggerated feelings of euphoria and delusions of grandeur [adj] able or tending to expand or characterized by expansion; "Expansive materials"; "the expansive force of fire" [adj] impressive in scale; "an expansive lifestyle"; "in the grand manner" Synonyms | Synonyms for Expansive: cavernous | communicative | communicatory | distensible | erectile | euphoric | expandable | expandible | expansible | grand | happy | impressive | inflatable | talkative Related Terms | Find terms related to Expansive: accessible | affable | airy | all jaw | all-embracing | all-inclusive | amiable | ample | amplitudinous | approachable | big | bouncy | broad | buoyant | candid | capacious | chatty | commodious | communicable | communicative | comprehensive | conversable | conversational | copious | deep | demonstrative | dilatable | dilatant | distensive | easy | effervescent | effusive | elastic | enlarging | expandable | expanding | expansible | expansile | expansional | extendable | extended | extending | extensible | extensile | extensional | extensive | extroverted | far-reaching | flip | fluent | frank | free | free-speaking | free-spoken | free-tongued | friendly | full | gabby | garrulous | gassy | generous | genial | glib | gossipy | great | gregarious | gushy | infinite | inflatable | inflationary | large | lavish | liberal | long-winded | loquacious | multiloquent | multiloquious | newsy | open | openhanded | outgoing | outspoken | overtalkative | prolix | resilient | roomy | scopic | self-revealing | self-revelatory | smooth | sociable | spacious | spreading | talkative | talky | unconstrained | unhampered | unrepressed | unreserved | unrestrained | unrestricted | unreticent | unsecretive | unshrinking | unsilent | unsuppressed | vast | verbose | volatile | voluble | voluminous | warm | wide | wide-ranging | widespread | windy See Also | Expansive In Webster's Dictionary \Ex*pan"sive\, a. [Cf. F. expansif.]
Having a capacity or tendency to expand or dilate; diffusive;
of much expanse; wide-extending; as, the expansive force of
heat; the expansive quality of air.
A more expansive and generous compassion. --Eustace.
His forehead was broad and expansive. --Prescott.
-- {Ex*pan"sive*ly}, adv. -{Ex*pan"sive*ness}, n.
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