'Broad' definitions:
Definition of 'broad'
From: WordNet
adjective
Having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other; "wide roads"; "a wide necktie"; "wide margins"; "three feet wide"; "a river two miles broad"; "broad shoulders"; "a broad river" [syn: wide, broad] [ant: narrow]
adjective
Broad in scope or content; "across-the-board pay increases"; "an all-embracing definition"; "blanket sanctions against human-rights violators"; "an invention with broad applications"; "a panoptic study of Soviet nationality"- T.G.Winner; "granted him wide powers" [syn: across-the- board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, blanket(a), broad, encompassing, extensive, panoptic, wide]
adjective
Not detailed or specific; "a broad rule"; "the broad outlines of the plan"; "felt an unspecific dread" [syn: broad, unspecific]
adjective
Lacking subtlety; obvious; "gave us a broad hint that it was time to leave" [syn: broad, unsubtle]
adjective
Being at a peak or culminating point; "broad daylight"; "full summer" [syn: broad(a), full(a)]
adjective
Very large in expanse or scope; "a broad lawn"; "the wide plains"; "a spacious view"; "spacious skies" [syn: broad, spacious, wide]
adjective
(of speech) heavily and noticeably regional; "a broad southern accent"
adjective
Showing or characterized by broad-mindedness; "a broad political stance"; "generous and broad sympathies"; "a liberal newspaper"; "tolerant of his opponent's opinions" [syn: broad, large-minded, liberal, tolerant]
noun
Slang term for a woman; "a broad is a woman who can throw a mean punch"
Definition of 'Broad'
From: GCIDE
- Broad \Broad\ (br[add]d), a. [Compar. Broader (br[add]d"[~e]r); superl. Broadest.] [OE. brod, brad, AS. br[=a]d; akin to OS. br[=e]d, D. breed, G. breit, Icel. brei[eth]r, Sw. & Dan. bred, Goth. braids. Cf. Breadth.]
- 1. Wide; extend in breadth, or from side to side; -- opposed to narrow; as, a broad street, a broad table; an inch broad. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Extending far and wide; extensive; vast; as, the broad expanse of ocean. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full. "Broad and open day." --Bp. Porteus. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Fig.: Having a large measure of any thing or quality; not limited; not restrained; -- applied to any subject, and retaining the literal idea more or less clearly, the precise meaning depending largely on the substantive. [1913 Webster]
- A broad mixture of falsehood. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Hence: [1913 Webster]
- 5. Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged. [1913 Webster]
- The words in the Constitution are broad enough to include the case. --D. Daggett. [1913 Webster]
- In a broad, statesmanlike, and masterly way. --E. Everett. [1913 Webster]
- 6. Plain; evident; as, a broad hint. [1913 Webster]
- 7. Free; unrestrained; unconfined. [1913 Webster]
- As broad and general as the casing air. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 8. (Fine Arts) Characterized by breadth. See Breadth. [1913 Webster]
- 9. Cross; coarse; indelicate; as, a broad compliment; a broad joke; broad humor. [1913 Webster]
- 10. Strongly marked; as, a broad Scotch accent. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Broad is often used in compounds to signify wide, large, etc.; as, broad-chested, broad-shouldered, broad-spreading, broad-winged. [1913 Webster]
- Broad acres. See under Acre.
- Broad arrow, originally a pheon. See Pheon, and {Broad arrow} under Arrow.
- As broad as long, having the length equal to the breadth; hence, the same one way as another; coming to the same result by different ways or processes. [1913 Webster]
- It is as broad as long, whether they rise to others, or bring others down to them. --L'Estrange. [1913 Webster]
- Broad pennant. See under Pennant. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Wide; large; ample; expanded; spacious; roomy; extensive; vast; comprehensive; liberal. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Broad'
From: GCIDE
- Broad \Broad\, n.
- 1. The broad part of anything; as, the broad of an oar. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The spread of a river into a sheet of water; a flooded fen. [Local, Eng.] --Southey. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders. --Knight. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A woman, especially one who is sexually promiscuous; -- usually considered offensive. [slang] [PJC] broad-axe Broadaxe Broadax
Synonyms of 'broad'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abstract,
- accented,
- aleatoric,
- aleatory,
- alveolar,
- amorphous,
- ample,
- amplitudinous,
- apical,
- apico-alveolar,
- apico-dental,
- approximate,
- articulated,
- artless,
- assimilated,
- babe,
- baby,
- back,
- bad woman,
- baggage,
- barytone,
- biddy,
- bilabial,
- bimbo,
- bird,
- bitch,
- bland,
- blobby,
- blue,
- bluff,
- blunt,
- blurred,
- blurry,
- bright,
- broad-based,
- broad-gauged,
- broad-minded,
- broad-shouldered,
- brusque,
- burlesque,
- cacuminal,
- candid,
- capacious,
- catholic,
- central,
- cerebral,
- chance,
- chancy,
- chaotic,
- checked,
- chick,
- chippy,
- clear,
- clitoromaniac,
- close,
- coarse,
- cocotte,
- collective,
- colleen,
- comic,
- comical,
- commodious,
- comprehensive,
- confused,
- consonant,
- consonantal,
- continuant,
- cookie,
- copious,
- cosmopolitan,
- cutie,
- dame,
- damoiselle,
- damsel,
- deep,
- demoiselle,
- dental,
- diffuse,
- direct,
- dirty,
- disordered,
- dissimilated,
- doll,
- dorsal,
- downright,
- drab,
- earthy,
- easy lay,
- easy woman,
- ecumenical,
- ecumenistic,
- emphatic,
- evident,
- expansive,
- explicit,
- extended,
- extending,
- extensive,
- far-embracing,
- far-extending,
- far-flung,
- far-flying,
- far-going,
- far-ranging,
- far-reaching,
- farcical,
- featureless,
- filly,
- filthy,
- flat,
- floozy,
- foggy,
- forthright,
- frail,
- frail sister,
- frank,
- frankhearted,
- free,
- free-speaking,
- free-spoken,
- free-tongued,
- front,
- full,
- fuzzy,
- gal,
- general,
- generalized,
- generic,
- generous,
- genuine,
- girl,
- girlie,
- glide,
- glossal,
- glottal,
- grisette,
- gross,
- gutter,
- guttural,
- hard,
- harridan,
- hazy,
- heart-to-heart,
- heavy,
- heifer,
- hen,
- high,
- hit-or-miss,
- hoyden,
- hussy,
- hysteromaniac,
- ill-defined,
- imprecise,
- improper,
- inaccurate,
- inchoate,
- inclusive,
- incoherent,
- indecent,
- indecisive,
- indefinable,
- indefinite,
- indelicate,
- indeterminable,
- indeterminate,
- indiscriminate,
- indistinct,
- inelegant,
- inexact,
- infinite,
- ingenuous,
- intonated,
- jade,
- Jane,
- jeune fille,
- Jezebel,
- jill,
- junior miss,
- labial,
- labiodental,
- labiovelar,
- large,
- large-scale,
- lascivious,
- lass,
- lassie,
- lateral,
- latitudinarian,
- lax,
- lewd,
- liberal,
- light,
- lingual,
- liquid,
- little missy,
- loose,
- loose woman,
- low,
- mademoiselle,
- maid,
- maiden,
- main,
- mid,
- minx,
- miss,
- missy,
- mock-heroic,
- monophthongal,
- muted,
- narrow,
- nasal,
- nasalized,
- nebulous,
- neutral,
- noninsular,
- nonspecific,
- number,
- nymphet,
- nympho,
- nymphomaniac,
- obscene,
- obscure,
- obvious,
- occlusive,
- off color,
- open,
- openhearted,
- orderless,
- outspoken,
- oxytone,
- palatal,
- palatalized,
- pharyngeal,
- pharyngealized,
- phonemic,
- phonetic,
- phonic,
- pickup,
- piece,
- pitch,
- pitched,
- plain,
- plain-spoken,
- pornographic,
- posttonic,
- pronounced,
- quean,
- random,
- rank,
- raw,
- retroflex,
- romp,
- roomy,
- rough,
- round,
- rounded,
- rude,
- schoolgirl,
- schoolmaid,
- schoolmiss,
- semivowel,
- shadowed forth,
- shadowy,
- shapeless,
- sincere,
- skirt,
- slapstick,
- slip,
- slut,
- soft,
- sonant,
- spacious,
- spacious of mind,
- spread out,
- spreading,
- stochastic,
- stopped,
- straight,
- straight-out,
- straightforward,
- stressed,
- strong,
- strumpet,
- subdeb,
- subdebutante,
- subteen,
- subteener,
- surd,
- sweeping,
- syllabic,
- tart,
- teenybopper,
- tense,
- thick,
- throaty,
- titillating,
- tolerant,
- tomato,
- tomboy,
- tonal,
- tonic,
- tragicomic,
- transparent,
- trollop,
- trull,
- twangy,
- unaccented,
- unbigoted,
- uncharacterized,
- unchecked,
- unclear,
- unconcealed,
- unconstrained,
- uncouth,
- undefined,
- undestined,
- undetermined,
- undifferentiated,
- undisguised,
- unequivocal,
- unfanatical,
- ungentlemanly,
- unguarded,
- unhidebound,
- unladylike,
- unparochial,
- unplain,
- unprovincial,
- unrefined,
- unreserved,
- unrestrained,
- unrounded,
- unshaded,
- unspecific,
- unspecified,
- unstressed,
- unsubtle,
- uteromaniac,
- vague,
- vast,
- veiled,
- velar,
- virgin,
- vocalic,
- vocoid,
- voiced,
- voiceless,
- voluminous,
- vowel,
- vowellike,
- vulgar,
- wanton,
- weak,
- wench,
- wholesale,
- whore,
- wide,
- wide-banked,
- wide-bottomed,
- wide-branched,
- wide-breasted,
- wide-brimmed,
- wide-eared,
- wide-extended,
- wide-extending,
- wide-faced,
- wide-framed,
- wide-hipped,
- wide-leaved,
- wide-lipped,
- wide-minded,
- wide-nosed,
- wide-petaled,
- wide-ranging,
- wide-reaching,
- wide-rimmed,
- wide-roving,
- wide-set,
- wide-spaced,
- wide-spanned,
- wide-streeted,
- wide-stretching,
- wide-tracked,
- wide-wayed,
- wide-winged,
- widespread,
- woman,
- young creature,
- young thing
Words containing 'Broad'
- Broadly,
- Broadness,
- As broad as long,
- Broad Brook,
- Broad Church,
- Broad Fields,
- Broad acres,
- Broad arrow,
- Broad gauge,
- Broad pennant,
- Broad seal,
- broad bean,
- broad coverage,
- broad hatchet,
- broad interpretation,
- broad jump,
- broad minded,
- broad shouldered,
- broad tapeworm,
- broadly speaking,
- in a broad way,
- Broad Brook, CT,
- Broad Fields, KY,
- Broad Top City,
- Broad-brimmed,
- Broad-horned,
- Broad-leafed,
- Broad-leaved,
- broad beech fern,
- broad leaved centaury,
- broad leaved goldenrod,
- broad-ax,
- broad-axe,
- broad-bean,
- broad-headed,
- broad-minded,
- broad-mindedly,
- broad-mindedness,
- broad-shouldered,
- broad-side,
- Broad Top City, PA,
- broad buckler-fern,
- broad-banded armadillo,
- broad-bean plant,
- broad-crested cockatoo,
- broad-leaved bottletree,
- broad-leaved dock,
- broad-leaved montia,
- broad-leaved plantain,
- broad-leaved twayblade,
- broad-leaved everlasting pea