expansive
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
expansive
adj 1: able or tending to expand or characterized by expansion;
"Expansive materials"; "the expansive force of fire"
[ant: {unexpansive}]
2: of behavior that is impressive and ambitious in scale or
scope; "an expansive lifestyle"; "in the grand manner";
"collecting on a grand scale"; "heroic undertakings" [syn:
{expansive}, {grand}, {heroic}]
3: marked by exaggerated feelings of euphoria and delusions of
grandeur
4: friendly and open and willing to talk; "wine made the guest
expansive" [syn: {expansive}, {talkative}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Expansive \Ex*pan"sive\ ([e^]ks*p[a^]n"s[i^]v), a. [Cf. F.
expansif.]
1. 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.
[WordNet sense 1]
[1913 Webster]
A more expansive and generous compassion. --Eustace.
[1913 Webster]
His forehead was broad and expansive. --Prescott.
2. causing expansion; as, the expansive force of heat.
[1913 Webster +PJC]
3. of much expanse; wide-extending; as, an expansive view of
the mountains.
[PJC]
4. friendly, open, and unrestrained in conversation or
discourse; -- of people; as, wine made the guest
expansive. [WordNet sense 4]
Syn: effusive, talkative.
[WordNet 1.5]
5. characterized by exaggerated feelings of euphoria and
delusions of grandeur. [WordNet sense 3]
[WordNet 1.5] -- {Ex*pan"sive*ly}, adv.
-{Ex*pan"sive*ness}, n.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
116 Moby Thesaurus words for "expansive":
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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