Having relatively great or considerable extension from side to side; broad: as, wide cloth; a wide hall: opposed to narrow.Having (a certain or specified) extension as measured from side to side; having (a specified) width or breadth: as, cloth a yard wide.Of great horizontal extent; spacious; extensive; vast; great: as, the wide ocean.Embracing many subjects; looking at a question from many points of view; applicable to many cases: as, a person of wide culture.Capacious; bulging; loose; voluminous.Distended; expanded; spread apart; hence, open.Apart or remote from a specified point; distant; hence, remote from the direct line or object aimed at; too far or too much to one side; deviating; errant; wild: as, a wide arrow in archery; a wide ball in cricket.Amiss; unfortunate; ill; bad; hence, of little avail; useless.In phonetics, uttered with a comparatively relaxed or expanded condition of the walls of the buccal cavity: said by some phonetists of certain vowels, as ĕ, ĭ, ŏ, ŭ, when compared with ā, ē, â, ė.Synonyms Wide, Broad, spacious, large, ample. Wide and broad may be synonymous, but broad is generally the larger and more emphatic: a wide river is not thought of as so far across as a broad river. Wide is sometimes more applicable to that which is to be passed through: as, a wide mouth or aperture. It is another way of stating this fact to say that wide has more in mind than broad the limiting sides of the thing. Wide is also more generally applicable to that of which the length is much greater than the width, but not to the exclusion of broad. Each may in a secondary sense be used of length and breadth: as, broad acres; a wide domain.n. Wideness; breadth; extent.n. In cricket, a ball that goes wide of the wicket, and counts one against the side that is bowling.To a distance; afar; widely; a long way; abroad; extensively.Away or to one side of the mark, aim, purpose, or direct line; hence, astray.Round about; in the neighborhood around.To make wide; spread or set far apart.