'OPEN' definitions:
Definition of 'open'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Affording unobstructed entrance and exit; not shut or closed; "an open door"; "they left the door open" [syn: open, unfastened] [ant: closed, shut, unopen]
adjective
Affording free passage or access; "open drains"; "the road is open to traffic"; "open ranks" [ant: closed]
adjective
With no protection or shield; "the exposed northeast frontier"; "open to the weather"; "an open wound" [syn: exposed, open]
adjective
Open to or in view of all; "an open protest"; "an open letter to the editor"
adjective
Used of mouth or eyes; "keep your eyes open"; "his mouth slightly opened" [syn: open, opened] [ant: closed, shut]
adjective
Not having been filled; "the job is still open"
adjective
Accessible to all; "open season"; "an open economy"
adjective
Not defended or capable of being defended; "an open city"; "open to attack" [syn: assailable, undefendable, undefended, open]
adjective
(of textures) full of small openings or gaps; "an open texture"; "a loose weave" [syn: loose, open]
adjective
Having no protecting cover or enclosure; "an open boat"; "an open fire"; "open sports cars"
adjective
(set theory) of an interval that contains neither of its endpoints [ant: closed]
adjective
Not brought to a conclusion; subject to further thought; "an open question"; "our position on this bill is still undecided"; "our lawsuit is still undetermined" [syn: open, undecided, undetermined, unresolved]
adjective
Not sealed or having been unsealed; "the letter was already open"; "the opened package lay on the table" [syn: open, opened]
adjective
Without undue constriction as from e.g. tenseness or inhibition; "the clarity and resonance of an open tone"; "her natural and open response"
adjective
Ready or willing to receive favorably; "receptive to the proposals" [syn: receptive, open] [ant: unreceptive]
adjective
Open and observable; not secret or hidden; "an overt lie"; "overt hostility"; "overt intelligence gathering"; "open ballots" [syn: overt, open] [ant: covert]
adjective
Not requiring union membership; "an open shop employs nonunion workers"
adjective
Possibly accepting or permitting; "a passage capable of misinterpretation"; "open to interpretation"; "an issue open to question"; "the time is fixed by the director and players and therefore subject to much variation" [syn: capable, open, subject]
adjective
Affording free passage or view; "a clear view"; "a clear path to victory"; "open waters"; "the open countryside" [syn: clear, open]
adjective
Openly straightforward and direct without reserve or secretiveness; "his candid eyes"; "an open and trusting nature"; "a heart-to-heart talk" [syn: candid, open, heart-to-heart]
adjective
Ready for business; "the stores are open"
noun
A clear or unobstructed space or expanse of land or water; "finally broke out of the forest into the open" [syn: open, clear]
noun
Where the air is unconfined; "he wanted to get outdoors a little"; "the concert was held in the open air"; "camping in the open" [syn: outdoors, out-of-doors, open air, open]
noun
A tournament in which both professionals and amateurs may play
noun
Information that has become public; "all the reports were out in the open"; "the facts had been brought to the surface" [syn: open, surface]
verb
verb
Start to operate or function or cause to start operating or functioning; "open a business" [syn: open, open up] [ant: close, close down, close up, fold, shut down]
verb
verb
Begin or set in action, of meetings, speeches, recitals, etc.; "He opened the meeting with a long speech" [ant: close]
verb
Spread out or open from a closed or folded state; "open the map"; "spread your arms" [syn: unfold, spread, spread out, open] [ant: fold, fold up, turn up]
verb
Make available; "This opens up new possibilities" [syn: open, open up]
verb
Become available; "an opportunity opened up" [syn: open, open up]
verb
Have an opening or passage or outlet; "The bedrooms open into the hall"
verb
Make the opening move; "Kasparov opened with a standard opening"
verb
Afford access to; "the door opens to the patio"; "The French doors give onto a terrace" [syn: afford, open, give]
verb
Display the contents of a file or start an application as on a computer [ant: close]
Synonyms of 'open'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abandoned,
- aboveboard,
- absolute,
- accented,
- acceptable,
- accessible,
- activate,
- admissible,
- admissive,
- admissory,
- adumbrate,
- advertise,
- affirmed,
- afford,
- agape,
- agreeable,
- air,
- ajar,
- aloof,
- altruistic,
- alveolar,
- ambiguous,
- amenable,
- amiable,
- announce,
- announced,
- apical,
- apico-alveolar,
- apico-dental,
- apparent,
- approachable,
- appropriate,
- arguable,
- articulated,
- artless,
- ascetic,
- assimilated,
- at issue,
- attainable,
- austere,
- authentic,
- available,
- back,
- bald,
- bare,
- barytone,
- be a gas,
- be a hit,
- begin,
- beholdable,
- beneficent,
- bighearted,
- bilabial,
- bill,
- billow,
- blatant,
- bluff,
- blunt,
- bomb,
- bona fide,
- born yesterday,
- bounteous,
- bountiful,
- branch,
- branch out,
- brazen,
- breach,
- break,
- break the seal,
- bring out,
- bring to light,
- broach,
- broad,
- broadcast,
- broken,
- brought to notice,
- brusque,
- cacuminal,
- campestral,
- campestrian,
- candid,
- central,
- cerebral,
- champaign,
- charitable,
- check,
- checked,
- childlike,
- chink,
- circulated,
- clear,
- cleared,
- cleave,
- close,
- come-at-able,
- commence,
- common,
- common knowledge,
- common property,
- commonplace,
- communicate,
- communicative,
- conditional,
- conditioned,
- confiding,
- consonant,
- consonantal,
- conspicuous,
- contingent,
- continuant,
- contribute,
- conversable,
- cordial,
- cover,
- crack,
- crevasse,
- current,
- cut,
- cut apart,
- cut open,
- debatable,
- declared,
- dehiscent,
- deltoid,
- demonstrative,
- dental,
- denuded,
- dependent,
- depending,
- deploy,
- deserted,
- detached,
- detectable,
- develop,
- diffused,
- dilate,
- direct,
- discernible,
- disclose,
- disclosed,
- disconnected,
- discontinuous,
- discover,
- discrete,
- dismask,
- dispart,
- disperse,
- display,
- disposed,
- disrupt,
- disseminated,
- dissimilated,
- distend,
- distributed,
- ditch,
- divaricate,
- divide,
- divulge,
- dorsal,
- downright,
- dramatize,
- draw the veil,
- dry,
- dubious,
- dubitable,
- dull,
- effusive,
- embark,
- employable,
- equivocal,
- establish,
- evident,
- exhibit,
- expand,
- expansive,
- explain,
- explicit,
- expose,
- exposed,
- exposed to view,
- extend,
- extended,
- extensive,
- extroverted,
- fail,
- fair,
- fair and square,
- fan,
- fan out,
- fan-shape,
- fan-shaped,
- fanlike,
- fanned,
- fanning,
- feature,
- findable,
- fissure,
- fit,
- flabelliform,
- flagrant,
- flare,
- flared,
- flaring,
- flat,
- flexible,
- flop,
- fly open,
- forsaken,
- forthright,
- foursquare,
- fracture,
- frank,
- frankhearted,
- free,
- free hand,
- free-acting,
- free-going,
- free-moving,
- free-speaking,
- free-spoken,
- free-tongued,
- freehanded,
- freehearted,
- friendly,
- front,
- full,
- furnish,
- furrow,
- gap,
- gaping,
- gapped,
- gash,
- generous,
- genial,
- genuine,
- get,
- get going,
- get under way,
- getatable,
- gettable,
- giving,
- glaring,
- glide,
- glossal,
- glottal,
- godforsaken,
- good-faith,
- gossipy,
- gracious,
- greathearted,
- groove,
- guileless,
- guttural,
- handsome,
- hanging out,
- hard,
- headline,
- heart-to-heart,
- hearty,
- heavy,
- high,
- hint,
- hole,
- homely,
- homespun,
- honest,
- hospitable,
- humanitarian,
- idle,
- illimitable,
- imbibitory,
- impart,
- impressionable,
- in circulation,
- in evidence,
- in full view,
- in plain sight,
- in print,
- in question,
- in suspense,
- in the balance,
- in view,
- inaugurate,
- incise,
- inclined,
- incoherent,
- inconsistent,
- indecisive,
- influenceable,
- ingenu,
- ingenuous,
- ingestive,
- initiate,
- innocent,
- insight,
- intonated,
- introduce,
- intromissive,
- intromittent,
- invitatory,
- inviting,
- kick off,
- labial,
- labiodental,
- labiovelar,
- large,
- largehearted,
- lateral,
- launch,
- lavish,
- lax,
- lay bare,
- lay open,
- lean,
- leisure,
- leisured,
- let daylight in,
- let out,
- liable,
- liberal,
- light,
- limitless,
- lingual,
- liquid,
- low,
- made public,
- magnanimous,
- make a hit,
- make known,
- make plain,
- malleable,
- manifest,
- mantle,
- matter-of-fact,
- melodramatize,
- mid,
- monophthongal,
- moot,
- mount,
- movable,
- munificent,
- muted,
- naive,
- naked,
- narrow,
- nasal,
- nasalized,
- natural,
- navigable,
- neat,
- neighborly,
- newsy,
- no strings,
- nonadherent,
- nonadhesive,
- noncoherent,
- noncohesive,
- nonimmune,
- noticeable,
- obnoxious,
- observable,
- obtainable,
- obvious,
- occlusive,
- offer,
- on the level,
- on the square,
- on the up-and-up,
- ope,
- open a show,
- open air,
- open and aboveboard,
- open as day,
- open fire,
- open to,
- open to all,
- open to view,
- open up,
- open-handed,
- open-minded,
- openhanded,
- openhearted,
- operative,
- out-of-doors,
- outcropping,
- outdoors,
- outgoing,
- outland,
- outside,
- outspoken,
- outspread,
- outstretch,
- outstretched,
- overgrow,
- overrun,
- overspread,
- overt,
- oxytone,
- palatal,
- palatalized,
- palpable,
- part,
- passable,
- patent,
- patulous,
- peeled,
- pendent,
- pending,
- penetrable,
- perceivable,
- perceptible,
- perfect,
- perforate,
- persuadable,
- persuasible,
- pervious,
- pharyngeal,
- pharyngealized,
- phonemic,
- phonetic,
- phonic,
- pierce,
- pitch,
- pitched,
- plain,
- plain-speaking,
- plain-spoken,
- plastic,
- pleasing,
- plenary,
- pliable,
- pliant,
- posttonic,
- practicable,
- predisposed,
- premiere,
- present,
- preview,
- princely,
- problematic,
- proclaimed,
- procurable,
- produce,
- profuse,
- prone,
- propagated,
- proper,
- prosaic,
- prosing,
- provide,
- public,
- publish,
- published,
- pull out,
- pure,
- put on,
- raise,
- raise the curtain,
- ramify,
- reachable,
- receivable,
- receptible,
- receptive,
- recipient,
- recognizable,
- release,
- rent,
- reported,
- responsive,
- retired,
- retroflex,
- reveal,
- revealed,
- rift,
- ringent,
- rip,
- rive,
- roomy,
- round,
- rounded,
- rupture,
- rustic,
- scenarize,
- securable,
- seeable,
- self-revealing,
- self-revelatory,
- semiretired,
- semivowel,
- sensitive,
- separate,
- set in motion,
- set the stage,
- set up,
- severe,
- shadow,
- show,
- show forth,
- show up,
- showing,
- simple,
- simple-speaking,
- simplehearted,
- simpleminded,
- sincere,
- single-hearted,
- single-minded,
- sit,
- slash,
- slit,
- slot,
- sober,
- sociable,
- soft,
- sonant,
- spacious,
- spare,
- Spartan,
- splay,
- splayed,
- splaying,
- split,
- spraddle,
- spraddled,
- spraddling,
- sprangle,
- sprangled,
- sprangling,
- sprawl,
- sprawling,
- sprawly,
- spread,
- spread like wildfire,
- spread out,
- spreading,
- spring open,
- square,
- square-dealing,
- square-shooting,
- stage,
- star,
- stark,
- start,
- stated,
- stintless,
- stopped,
- straight,
- straight-out,
- straight-shooting,
- straightforward,
- stressed,
- stretch out,
- stretched-out,
- strip bare,
- stripped,
- strong,
- suasible,
- subject,
- succeed,
- suggest,
- suggestible,
- suitable,
- surd,
- susceptible,
- suspenseful,
- swayable,
- swell,
- swing open,
- syllabic,
- talkative,
- tap,
- tear,
- tear open,
- telecast,
- televised,
- tenantless,
- tense,
- tenuous,
- the open,
- the out-of-doors,
- theatricalize,
- thick,
- throaty,
- throw open,
- to be had,
- to be seen,
- tonal,
- tonic,
- transparent,
- trench,
- trustful,
- trusting,
- try out,
- twangy,
- unaccented,
- unadhesive,
- unadorned,
- unaffected,
- unbar,
- unbarred,
- unblock,
- unblocked,
- unbolt,
- unbolted,
- unbooked,
- unbound,
- unbounded,
- uncertain,
- unchecked,
- uncircumscribed,
- unclassified,
- uncloak,
- unclog,
- unclogged,
- unclosed,
- unclothe,
- unclouded,
- uncluttered,
- uncoherent,
- uncohesive,
- uncommitted,
- unconcealed,
- unconditional,
- unconditioned,
- unconfined,
- unconnected,
- unconstrained,
- uncork,
- uncounted,
- uncover,
- uncovered,
- undecided,
- undefended,
- undetermined,
- undisguised,
- undissembled,
- undissembling,
- undo,
- undrape,
- unencumbered,
- unequivocal,
- unestablished,
- unfasten,
- unfastened,
- unfilled,
- unfixed,
- unfold,
- unfolded,
- unfortified,
- unfurl,
- ungrudging,
- unguarded,
- unhampered,
- unhidden,
- unhindered,
- unimaginative,
- unimpeded,
- uninhabited,
- uninhibited,
- unjoined,
- unkennel,
- unlatch,
- unlimited,
- unlock,
- unlocked,
- unmanned,
- unmask,
- unmeasured,
- unobstructed,
- unoccupied,
- unpack,
- unpeopled,
- unpopulated,
- unprotected,
- unqualified,
- unrepressed,
- unreserved,
- unresolved,
- unrestrained,
- unrestricted,
- unreticent,
- unroll,
- unrounded,
- unscheduled,
- unscreen,
- unseal,
- unsealed,
- unsecretive,
- unselfish,
- unsettled,
- unsheathe,
- unsheltered,
- unshrinking,
- unshroud,
- unshut,
- unsigned,
- unsilent,
- unsophisticated,
- unsparing,
- unstaffed,
- unstinted,
- unstinting,
- unstop,
- unstopped,
- unstressed,
- unsuppressed,
- unsuspicious,
- untaken,
- untenacious,
- untenanted,
- untended,
- untie,
- untold,
- unvarnished,
- unveil,
- unwary,
- unwrap,
- up for grabs,
- up-and-up,
- usable,
- vacant,
- velar,
- veritable,
- viewable,
- visible,
- visual,
- vocalic,
- vocoid,
- voiced,
- voiceless,
- vowel,
- vowellike,
- warm,
- warmhearted,
- weak,
- welcoming,
- well-known,
- wide,
- wide open,
- wide-open,
- widely known,
- widen,
- widespread,
- willing,
- within reach,
- without,
- without strings,
- witnessable,
- yawning,
- yield
Acronyms for 'open'
From: V.E.R.A.
- [You-R] OPerating ENvironment (Infineon, RFID)
- Open Protocol Enhanced Networks
Words containing 'OPEN'
- can opener,
- open to,
- open up,
- opened,
- opener,
- opening,
- openly,
- openness,
- out in the open,
- Counter opening,
- Gill opening,
- Letters open,
- Open Sesame,
- Open chain,
- Open policy,
- Open sight,
- Pew opener,
- Spherical opening,
- To break open,
- To fling open,
- To fly open,
- To lay open,
- To open the budget,
- To open the trenches,
- Under open sky,
- bottle opener,
- break open,
- cap opener,
- chess opening,
- click open,
- drop open,
- eye opener,
- eye opening,
- fall open,
- fly open,
- hold open,
- keep open,
- letter opener,
- neck opening,
- open account,
- open air,
- open and aboveboard,
- open circuit,
- open diapason,
- open door,
- open eyed,
- open fire,
- open fireplace,
- open forum,
- open fracture,
- open frame,
- open house,
- open interval,
- open letter,
- open market,
- open marriage,
- open minded,
- open order,
- open place,
- open primary,
- open sandwich,
- open secret,
- open shop,
- open society,
- open to question,
- open university,
- open weave,
- opening line,
- opening move,
- opening night,
- tin opener,
- wide open,
- with open arms,
- To keep open house,
- eye-opening,
- open classroom school,
- open-air,
- open-and-shut,
- open-chain,
- open-collared,
- open-ended,
- open-eyed,
- open-hearth,
- open-minded,
- open-plan,
- open-source,
- wide open spaces,
- wide-open,
- To lay one's self open to,
- keep one's eyes open,
- open-air market,
- open-air marketplace,
- open-angle glaucoma,
- open-class word,
- open-door policy,
- open-end credit,
- open-end fund,
- open-end wrench,
- open-face sandwich,
- open-faced watch,
- open-heart surgery,
- open-hearth furnace,
- open-hearth process,
- open-end investment company