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expansive
adjective
1 expansive
Able or tending to expand or characterized by expansion.
Roget 180:
spacious,
roomy,
extensive,
expansive,
capacious,
ample;
widespread,
vast,
world-wide,
uncircumscribed;
boundless
etc.
(infinite)
105;
shoreless†,
trackless,
pathless;
extended.
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Roget 194:
expanded,
etc.
v.;
larger,
etc.
(large)
etc.
192;
swollen;
expansive;
wide open,
wide spread;
flabelliform†;
overgrown,
exaggerated,
bloated,
fat,
turgid,
tumid,
hypertrophied,
dropsical;
pot bellied,
swag bellied†;
edematous,
oedematous†,
obese,
puffy,
pursy†,
blowzy,
bigswoln†,
distended;
patulous;
bulbous
etc.
(convex)
250;
full blown,
full grown,
full formed;
big
etc.
192;
abdominous†,
enchymatous†,
rhipidate†;
tumefacient†,
tumefying†.
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2 expansive
Of behavior that is impressive and ambitious in scale or scope:
— An expansive lifestyle.
synonyms: grand, heroic.
3 expansive
Marked by exaggerated feelings of euphoria and delusions of grandeur.
Polish: ekspansywny
4 expansive
Friendly and open and willing to talk:
— Wine made the guest expansive.
synonym: talkative.
Moby thesaurus: 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 ... show more.
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