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| 1) | 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" |
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| Synonyms : | broad |
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| beamy bird's-eye broad-brimmed citywide countywide countrywide comprehensive deep heavy in_breadth schoolwide spreading statewide stretching sweeping wide-screen thick breadth narrow fanlike |
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| 2) | broad in scope or content; "across-the-board pay increases"; "an all-embracing definition"; "blanket sanctions against human-rights violators"; "an invention with broad applications"; "a panoptic study of Soviet nationality"- T.G.Winner; "granted him wide powers" |
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| Synonyms : | across-the-board all-embracing all-encompassing all-inclusive blanket broad encompassing panoptic |
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| comprehensive |
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| 3) | (used of eyes) fully open or extended; "listened in round-eyed wonder"; "stared with wide eyes" |
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| Synonyms : | round-eyed wide-eyed |
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| 4) | very large in expanse or scope; "a broad lawn"; "the wide plains"; "a spacious view"; "spacious skies" |
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| Synonyms : | broad spacious |
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| 5) | great in degree; "won by a wide margin" |
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| 6) | great in range or scope; "an extended vocabulary"; "surgeons with extended experience"; "extensive examples of picture writing"; "suffered extensive damage"; "a wide selection" |
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| Synonyms : | extended extensive |
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| 7) | having ample fabric; "the current taste for wide trousers"; "a full skirt" |
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| Synonyms : | full wide-cut |
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| ample |
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| 8) | not on target; "the kick was wide"; "the arrow was wide of the mark"; "a claim that was wide of the truth" |
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| Synonyms : | wide_of_the_mark |
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| inaccurate |
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| wide [r] |
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| 1) | with or by a broad space; "stand with legs wide apart"; "ran wide around left end" |
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| 2) | to the fullest extent possible; "open your eyes wide"; "with the throttle wide open" |
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| 3) | far from the intended target; "the arrow went wide of the mark"; "a bullet went astray and killed a bystander" |
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| Synonyms : | astray |
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| 4) | to or over a great extent or range; far; "wandered wide through many lands"; "he traveled widely" |
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| Synonyms : | widely |
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