adj
Meaning 1
Comprehensive in scope or extent.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- expansive research work
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
expansive
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ɪkˈspænsɪv/
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rhymes with -ɪv
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adj
Meaning 2
Talkative and sociable.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
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adj
Meaning 3
Able to be expanded.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adj
Meaning 4
Exhibiting expansivity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: mathematics, sciences
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adjective
Meaning 5
able or tending to expand or characterized by expansion
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- Expansive materials
- the expansive force of fire
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: unexpansive
adjective satellite
Meaning 6
friendly and open and willing to talk
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- wine made the guest expansive
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: talkative
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 7
marked by exaggerated feelings of euphoria and delusions of grandeur
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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adjective satellite
Meaning 8
of behavior that is impressive and ambitious in scale or scope
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- an expansive lifestyle
- in the grand manner
- collecting on a grand scale
- heroic undertakings
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: grand, heroic
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Latin expāns-, past-participle stem of expandere (“to spread out”; see expand) + -ive.
Across languages
Translations
33 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: обширен (obširen) — Comprehensive in scope or extent
- Bulgarian: просторен (prostoren) — Comprehensive in scope or extent
- Dutch: omvattend — Comprehensive in scope or extent
- German: umfangreich — Comprehensive in scope or extent
- German: umfassend — Comprehensive in scope or extent
- Latin: lātus — Comprehensive in scope or extent
- Māori: roha — Comprehensive in scope or extent
- Sanskrit: पृथु (pṛthú) — Comprehensive in scope or extent
- Serbo-Croatian: opširan — Comprehensive in scope or extent
- Spanish: expansivo — Comprehensive in scope or extent
- Swedish: omfattande — Comprehensive in scope or extent
- German: gesprächig — Talkative and sociable
- German: gesellig — Talkative and sociable
- German: herzlich — Talkative and sociable
- German: beredt — Talkative and sociable
- German: mitteilsam — Talkative and sociable
- German: freundlich — Talkative and sociable
- Portuguese: expansivo — Talkative and sociable
- Spanish: expansivo — Talkative and sociable
- Bulgarian: разширяем (razširjaem) — Able to be expanded
- French: expansible — Able to be expanded
- Galician: expansíbel — Able to be expanded
- Galician: expansible — Able to be expanded
- German: expandierbar — Able to be expanded
- German: ausdehnbar — Able to be expanded
- German: ausdehnungsfähig — Able to be expanded
- Italian: espansibile — Able to be expanded
- Italian: espandibile — Able to be expanded
- Serbo-Croatian: proširiv — Able to be expanded
- German: expansiv — (mathematics) Exhibiting expansivity
- Italian: espansivo — (mathematics) Exhibiting expansivity
- Spanish: expansivo — (mathematics) Exhibiting expansivity
- Spanish: expandiente — (mathematics) Exhibiting expansivity
Real reading context