About The Word Expansive

Bay Area Crosswords

Learn about the word Expansive to help solve your crossword puzzle. Discover Expansive definitions and meaning, origins, synonyms, related terms and more at the free Crossword Dictionary.

Expansive

Expansive Meaning & Definition
Expansive Definition And Meaning

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.

More Crossword Puzzle Words

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

Cross Word Of The Day

  • Mill-hand ‐ a workman in a mill…
  • Angularity ‐ the property possessed by a shape that has angles [n] a shape…
  • Seasonably ‐ at an opportune time; "your letter arrived apropos" [adv] in…
  • Nabalus ‐ genus of North American and east Asian perennial herbs; sometimes…
  • Invigilation ‐ (British) keeping watch over examination candidates to prevent…
  • Drop line ‐ a headline with the top line flush left and succeeding lines…
  • Rave-up ‐ (British) a raucous…
  • Oregon ‐ a state in northwestern United States on…
  • Kinaesthesis ‐ the ability to feel movements of the…
  • Sewed ‐ fastened…