expansive
/ɪkˈspansɪv
/ /ɛkˈspansɪv/adjective
1Covering a wide area in terms of space or scope; extensive: expansive beaches...
- Notice the wider decorative elements which function as an expansive area for the picture.
- Pendant lamps and a simplified pattern of coffers lend definition to the dining area, while in the more expansive family room area, the ceiling rises to a peak.
- The results of this review are sufficiently encouraging to warrant further and more expansive studies in this area of considerable public health importance.
Synonyms
extensive, sweeping, rolling;
spacious
wide-ranging, extensive, broad, wide, all-embracing, comprehensive, thorough, inclusive, cross-disciplinary, interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary
2(Of a person or their manner) relaxed and genially frank and communicative: he was in an expansive mood...
- The officers seem to have been chosen for this task by sheer force of their outgoing, expansive personalities.
- His father was an outgoing, large and expansive man while his mother was a polite, passive person who Tom describes as a pushover.
- A colossus - in girth at least - he felt he could engulf the United States in his expansive personality.
Synonyms
communicative, forthcoming, sociable, friendly, outgoing, unreserved, uninhibited, open, affable, amiable, genial, chatty, talkative, conversational, garrulous, loquacious, voluble, effusive, demonstrative, extrovert, extroverted;
discursive
informal talky
3Tending towards economic or political expansion: expansive domestic economic policies...
- In 1856 the financial climate was favorable to a more expansive policy towards company formation.
- This is the most expansive of the regional political models.
- What if at any moment either of them had advocated an expansive view of sexual politics?
Derivatives
expansively
/ /ɛkˈspansɪvli / adverb ...- When he found out I was just arriving from Kansas, he spread his arms expansively and barked, ‘Welcome to New York!’
- We withdrew in that second half, we didn't play as expansively as we can.
- Both are reluctant to talk about it too expansively because it marks how successful they have been in ‘convincing’ suppliers to help.
expansiveness
/ /ɛkˈspansɪvnəs / noun ...- The Guggenheim, which more than any other art museum epitomized the heady expansiveness of the 1990s economy, has suffered more than most.
- This expansiveness raised problems of rhetoric and tone.
- What really captivated me about this book is what I can only call its expansiveness, its sense of literary grace and play in the telling of history.