expansive

Speech parts

1. expansive - Adjective

2. expansive - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

grand talkative large open wide extensive huge vast broad enormous friendly immense heroic sweeping outgoing
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Antonyms

unexpansive curt elliptic synoptic telegraphic small
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Phrases with the word

expansive cranium expansive clay expansive ivory Cutter Expansive Classification more expansive

Examples

Learning organizations organizations where people continually expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire, where new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured, where collective aspiration is set free, and where people are continually learning how to learn together. Peter Senge

An expansive life, one not constrained by four walls, requires as well an expansive pocket. Anton Chekhov

The woman let out an expansive laugh that resounded through the house like a spray of broken glass. Gabriel García Márquez

We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world. Judith Butler

To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us continue to be more concerned with the quantity than with the quality of our democracy. Irving Babbitt

Each bud flowers but once and each flower has but its minute of perfect beauty; so, in the garden of the soul each feeling has, as it were, its flowering instant, its one and only moment of expansive grace and radiant kingship. Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Close letter words and terms

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