wide
About 76.11 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Having a large physical extent from side to side.
We walked down a wide corridor.
- adjective Large in scope.
The inquiry had a wide remit.
- adjective Overweight, obese.
- adjective Operating at the side of the playing area.
That team needs a decent wide player.
- adjective On one side or the other of the mark; too far sideways from the mark, the wicket, the batsman, etc.
Two balls before lunch, he bowled a wide.
- adjective Made, as a vowel, with a less tense, and more open and relaxed, condition of the organs in the mouth.
- adjective Vast, great in extent, extensive.
The wide, lifeless expanse.
- adjective Located some distance away; distant, far. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
Similar words
broad extensive widely extended spacious comprehensive across-the-board all-embracing stretching full
Often followed by
range variety and open web as enough world area
Word family
wideness widenesses wider widest
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