expansive

expansive

comprehensive; extensive; effusive; sociable, extroverted, outgoing, unreserved: She has an expansive personality.
Not to be confused with:expensive – very high-priced; costly: an expensive gown

ex·pan·sive

E0282800 (ĭk-spăn′sĭv)adj.1. Capable of expanding or tending to expand.2. Broad in size or extent; comprehensive: expansive police powers.3. Open and communicative; talkative or effusive: Wine made the guest expansive.4. Grand in scale: an expansive lifestyle.

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ex·pan′sive·ly adv.ex·pan′sive·ness, ex′pan·siv′i·ty (ĕk′spăn-sĭv′ĭ-tē) n.

expansive

(ɪkˈspænsɪv) adj1. able or tending to expand or characterized by expansion2. wide; extensive3. friendly, open, or talkative: an expansive person. 4. grand or extravagant: an expansive way of life. 5. (Psychology) psychiatry lacking restraint in the expression of feelings, esp in having delusions of grandeur or being inclined to overvalue oneself or one's work exˈpansively adv exˈpansiveness n

ex•pan•sive

(ɪkˈspæn sɪv)

adj. 1. having a wide range or extent; extensive. 2. cordially welcoming; effusive: an expansive host. 3. tending to expand or capable of expanding. 4. causing expansion: the expansive force of heat. [1645–55] ex•pan′sive•ly, adv. ex•pan′sive•ness, n.

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	expansive - able or tending to expand or characterized by expansion; "Expansive materials"; "the expansive force of fire"unexpansive - showing no tendency to expand; "unexpansive bodies"
	2.	expansive - 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"grand, heroicimpressive - making a strong or vivid impression; "an impressive ceremony"
	3.	expansive - marked by exaggerated feelings of euphoria and delusions of grandeurpsychiatry, psychological medicine, psychopathology - the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorderseuphoric - exaggerated feeling of well-being or elation
	4.	expansive - friendly and open and willing to talk; "wine made the guest expansive"talkativecommunicatory, communicative - able or tending to communicate; "was a communicative person and quickly told all she knew"- W.M.Thackeray

expansive

adjective1. wide, broad, extensive, spacious, sweeping an expansive grassy play area2. comprehensive, extensive, broad, wide, widespread, wide-ranging, thorough, inclusive, far-reaching, voluminous, all-embracing the book's expansive coverage of this period3. talkative, open, friendly, outgoing, free, easy, warm, sociable, genial, affable, communicative, effusive, garrulous, loquacious, unreserved He became more expansive as he began to relax.

expansive

adjective1. Large in expanse:ample, broad, extensive, spacious.2. Covering a wide scope:all-around, all-inclusive, all-round, broad, broad-spectrum, comprehensive, extended, extensive, far-ranging, far-reaching, general, global, inclusive, large, overall, sweeping, wide-ranging, wide-reaching, widespread.3. Disposed to be open, sociable, and talkative:communicable, communicative, extraverted, extroverted, gregarious, outgoing, unreserved.

Translations

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