adj
Meaning 1
Having a large physical extent from side to side.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- We walked down a wide corridor.
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adj
Having a large physical extent from side to side.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adj
Large in scope.
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adj
Overweight, obese.
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Usage: derogatory, humorous, slang
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adj
Operating at the side of the playing area.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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adj
On one side or the other of the mark; too far sideways from the mark, the wicket, the batsman, etc.
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adj
Made, as a vowel, with a less tense, and more open and relaxed, condition of the organs in the mouth.
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Usage: dated
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, phonetics, phonology, sciences
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adj
Vast, great in extent, extensive.
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Usage: Northern-England, Scotland, archaic
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adj
Located some distance away; distant, far.
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Usage: obsolete
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adj
Far from truth, propriety, necessity, etc.
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Usage: obsolete
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adj
Of or supporting a greater range of text characters than can fit into the traditional 8-bit representation.
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Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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adj
Sharp-witted.
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Usage: UK, slang
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adv
Extensively.
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adv
Completely.
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adv
Away from or to one side of a given goal.
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adv
So as to leave or have a great space between the sides; so as to form a large opening.
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noun
A ball that passes so far from the batsman that the umpire deems it unplayable; the arm signal used by an umpire to signal a wide; the extra run added to the batting side's score
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: ball-games, cricket, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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adjective
having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: broad
Antonyms: narrow
adjective
great in degree
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Antonyms: narrow
adjective satellite
not on target
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: wide of the mark
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adjective satellite
having ample fabric
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: wide-cut, full
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adjective satellite
broad in scope or content- T.G.Winner
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: across-the-board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, blanket(a), broad, encompassing, extensive, panoptic
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adjective satellite
very large in expanse or scope
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: broad, spacious
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adjective satellite
(used of eyes) fully open or extended
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: wide-eyed
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adverb
to or over a great extent or range; far
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: widely
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adverb
with or by a broad space
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adverb
far from the intended target
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: astray
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adverb
to the fullest extent possible
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History
PIE word *dwóh1 From Middle English wid, wyd, from Old English wīd (“wide, vast, broad, long; distant, far”), from Proto-Germanic *wīdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h1weydhh1- (“to divide, separate”), a dissimilated univerbation from *dwi- (“apart, asunder, in two”) + *dheh1- (“to do, put, place”). Cognates Cognate with North Frisian widj (“wide”), Saterland Frisian wied (“wide”), West Frisian wiid (“broad; wide”), Central Franconian weck, weit, wick, wiet (“distant, far, wide”), Dutch wijd (“wide; large; broad”), German weit (“far; wide; broad”), Luxembourgish weit (“wide”), wäit (“far”), Yiddish ווײַט (vayt, “distant, far”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish vid (“wide”), Faroese and Icelandic víður (“wide”); also Breton gwez (“trees”), Cornish gwedh, gwëdh, gwydh, gwÿdh (“trees”), Irish and Scottish Gaelic fiodh (“timber, wood”), Manx fuygh (“timber, wood”), Welsh gwŷdd (“trees”), Latin dīvidō (“to divide, separate”), Latgalian vyds (“middle”), Latvian vidus (“center, middle”), Lithuanian vidùs (“interior, inside; inward”), Tocharian A and Tocharian B wätk- (“to distinguish, separate”). Related to widow.
Across languages
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