Meaning of EXPANSIVE
| Pronunciation: | | ik'spansiv
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- [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"
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| | Synonyms: | | cavernous, communicative, communicatory, distensible, erectile, euphoric, expandable, expandible, expansible, grand, happy, impressive, inflatable, talkative |
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| | Antonyms: | | unexpansive | | |
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| | Definition: | | \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.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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