Expansive

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Capable of expanding or tending to expand.
  • adj. Broad in size or extent; comprehensive: expansive police powers.
  • adj. Open and communicative; talkative or effusive: Wine made the guest expansive.
  • adj. Grand in scale: an expansive lifestyle.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Able to be expanded.
  • adj. Comprehensive in scope or extent.
  • adj. Talkative and sociable.
  • adj. Exhibiting expansivity.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Having a capacity or tendency to expand or dilate; diffusive; of much expanse; wide-extending
  • adj. causing expansion.
  • adj. of much expanse; wide-extending.
  • adj. friendly, open, and unrestrained in conversation or discourse; -- of people.
  • adj. characterized by exaggerated feelings of euphoria and delusions of grandeur.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Capable of causing or effecting expansion: as, the expansive force of heat.
  • Capable of being expanded, or of expanding or spreading out in volume or extent; dilatable: as, the expansive quality of air; expansive gases or substances.
  • Embracing a large number of objects or particulars; wide-extending; comprehensive: as, expansive benevolence; an expansive outlook.
  • Comprehensive in feeling or action; sympathetic; effusive.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. of behavior that is impressive and ambitious in scale or scope
  • adj. able or tending to expand or characterized by expansion
  • adj. friendly and open and willing to talk
  • adj. marked by exaggerated feelings of euphoria and delusions of grandeur
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