'Wide' definitions:
Definition of 'wide'
From: WordNet
adverb
With or by a broad space; "stand with legs wide apart"; "ran wide around left end"
adverb
To the fullest extent possible; "open your eyes wide"; "with the throttle wide open"
adverb
Far from the intended target; "the arrow went wide of the mark"; "a bullet went astray and killed a bystander" [syn: wide, astray]
adverb
To or over a great extent or range; far; "wandered wide through many lands"; "he traveled widely" [syn: wide, widely]
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
(used of eyes) fully open or extended; "stared with wide eyes" [syn: wide-eyed, wide]
adjective
Very large in expanse or scope; "a broad lawn"; "the wide plains"; "a spacious view"; "spacious skies" [syn: broad, spacious, wide]
adjective
Great in degree; "won by a wide margin" [ant: narrow]
adjective
Having ample fabric; "the current taste for wide trousers"; "a full skirt" [syn: wide, wide-cut, full]
adjective
Not on target; "the kick was wide"; "the arrow was wide of the mark"; "a claim that was wide of the truth" [syn: wide, wide of the mark]
Definition of 'Wide'
From: GCIDE
- Wide \Wide\ (w[imac]d), a. [Compar. Wider (-[~e]r); superl. Widest.] [OE. wid, wyde, AS. w[imac]d; akin to OFries. & OS. w[imac]d, D. wijd, G. weit, OHG. w[imac]t, Icel. v[imac][eth]r, Sw. & Dan. vid; of uncertain origin.]
- 1. Having considerable distance or extent between the sides; spacious across; much extended in a direction at right angles to that of length; not narrow; broad; as, wide cloth; a wide table; a wide highway; a wide bed; a wide hall or entry. [1913 Webster]
- The chambers and the stables weren wyde. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- Wide is the gate . . . that leadeth to destruction. --Matt. vii. 18. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Having a great extent every way; extended; spacious; broad; vast; extensive; as, a wide plain; the wide ocean; a wide difference. "This wyde world." --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- For sceptered cynics earth were far too wide a den. --Byron. [1913 Webster]
- When the wide bloom, on earth that lies, Seems of a brighter world than ours. --Bryant. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Of large scope; comprehensive; liberal; broad; as, wide views; a wide understanding. [1913 Webster]
- Men of strongest head and widest culture. --M. Arnold. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Of a certain measure between the sides; measuring in a direction at right angles to that of length; as, a table three feet wide. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Remote; distant; far. [1913 Webster]
- The contrary being so wide from the truth of Scripture and the attributes of God. --Hammond. [1913 Webster]
- 6. Far from truth, from propriety, from necessity, or the like. "Our wide expositors." --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- It is far wide that the people have such judgments. --Latimer. [1913 Webster]
- How wide is all this long pretense ! --Herbert. [1913 Webster]
- 7. On one side or the other of the mark; too far side-wise from the mark, the wicket, the batsman, etc. [1913 Webster]
- Surely he shoots wide on the bow hand. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- I was but two bows wide. --Massinger. [1913 Webster]
- 8. (Phon.) Made, as a vowel, with a less tense, and more open and relaxed, condition of the mouth organs; -- opposed to primary as used by Mr. Bell, and to narrow as used by Mr. Sweet. The effect, as explained by Mr. Bell, is due to the relaxation or tension of the pharynx; as explained by Mr. Sweet and others, it is due to the action of the tongue. The wide of [=e] ([=e]ve) is [i^] ([i^]ll); of [=a] ([=a]te) is [e^] ([e^]nd), etc. See Guide to Pronunciation, [sect] 13-15. [1913 Webster]
- 9. (Stock Exchanges) Having or showing a wide difference between the highest and lowest price, amount of supply, etc.; as, a wide opening; wide prices, where the prices bid and asked differ by several points. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- Note: Wide is often prefixed to words, esp. to participles and participial adjectives, to form self-explaining compounds; as, wide-beaming, wide-branched, wide-chopped, wide-echoing, wide-extended, wide-mouthed, wide-spread, wide-spreading, and the like. [1913 Webster]
- Far and wide. See under Far.
- Wide gauge. See the Note under Cauge, 6. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Wide'
From: GCIDE
- Wide \Wide\, adv. [As. w[imac]de.]
- 1. To a distance; far; widely; to a great distance or extent; as, his fame was spread wide. [1913 Webster]
- [I] went wyde in this world, wonders to hear. --Piers Plowman. [1913 Webster]
- 2. So as to leave or have a great space between the sides; so as to form a large opening. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. So as to be or strike far from, or on one side of, an object or purpose; aside; astray. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Wide'
From: GCIDE
- Wide \Wide\, n.
- 1. That which is wide; wide space; width; extent. "The waste wide of that abyss." --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- 2. That which goes wide, or to one side of the mark. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'wide'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aberrant,
- abroad,
- abstract,
- accented,
- adrift,
- advanced,
- afield,
- all abroad,
- all off,
- all wrong,
- alveolar,
- amiss,
- ample,
- amplitudinous,
- apical,
- apico-alveolar,
- apico-dental,
- articulated,
- askew,
- assimilated,
- astray,
- at fault,
- awry,
- back,
- barytone,
- beside the mark,
- bilabial,
- bland,
- broad,
- broad-gauged,
- broad-minded,
- broadly,
- cacuminal,
- capacious,
- catholic,
- central,
- cerebral,
- checked,
- clear,
- close,
- collective,
- commodious,
- comprehensive,
- consonant,
- consonantal,
- continuant,
- copious,
- corrupt,
- cosmopolitan,
- deceptive,
- deep,
- defective,
- delusive,
- dental,
- deviant,
- deviational,
- deviative,
- diffuse,
- dissimilated,
- distantly and broadly,
- distorted,
- dorsal,
- ecumenical,
- ecumenistic,
- errant,
- erring,
- erroneous,
- expansive,
- extended,
- extending,
- extensive,
- fallacious,
- false,
- far afield,
- far and near,
- far and wide,
- far-embracing,
- far-extending,
- far-flung,
- far-flying,
- far-going,
- far-ranging,
- far-reaching,
- faultful,
- faulty,
- featureless,
- flat,
- flawed,
- front,
- full,
- general,
- generalized,
- generic,
- generous,
- glide,
- glossal,
- glottal,
- guttural,
- hard,
- heavy,
- heretical,
- heterodox,
- high,
- illogical,
- illusory,
- indefinite,
- indeterminate,
- indiscriminate,
- infinite,
- intonated,
- labial,
- labiodental,
- labiovelar,
- large-scale,
- lateral,
- lax,
- liberal,
- light,
- lingual,
- liquid,
- low,
- mid,
- monophthongal,
- muted,
- narrow,
- nasal,
- nasalized,
- nebulous,
- neutral,
- noninsular,
- nonspecific,
- not right,
- not true,
- occlusive,
- off,
- off the track,
- open,
- out,
- oxytone,
- palatal,
- palatalized,
- peccant,
- perverse,
- perverted,
- pharyngeal,
- pharyngealized,
- phonemic,
- phonetic,
- phonic,
- pitch,
- pitched,
- posttonic,
- progressive,
- radical,
- retroflex,
- roomy,
- rounded,
- scopic,
- self-contradictory,
- semivowel,
- soft,
- sonant,
- spacious,
- spacious of mind,
- spreading,
- stopped,
- straying,
- stressed,
- strong,
- surd,
- sweeping,
- syllabic,
- tense,
- thick,
- throaty,
- tolerant,
- tonal,
- tonic,
- twangy,
- unaccented,
- unbigoted,
- uncharacterized,
- undifferentiated,
- unfactual,
- unfanatical,
- unhidebound,
- unorthodox,
- unparochial,
- unproved,
- unprovincial,
- unrounded,
- unspecified,
- unstressed,
- untrue,
- vague,
- vast,
- velar,
- vocalic,
- vocoid,
- voiced,
- voiceless,
- voluminous,
- vowel,
- vowellike,
- weak,
- wholesale,
- wide-extended,
- wide-extending,
- wide-minded,
- wide-ranging,
- wide-reaching,
- wide-stretching,
- widely,
- widespread,
- wrong
Words containing 'Wide'
- Widely,
- Wideness,
- Far and wide,
- Wide gauge,
- a wide berth,
- wide awake,
- wide berth,
- wide coverage,
- wide eyed,
- wide of the mark,
- wide open,
- wide screen,
- wide wale,
- wide world,
- widely distributed,
- world wide,
- Wide-angle,
- Wide-awake,
- World-wide,
- continent-wide,
- wide area network,
- wide open spaces,
- wide-body,
- wide-cut,
- wide-eyed,
- wide-open,
- wide-ranging,
- wide-screen,
- world wide web,
- wide-angle lens,
- wide-body aircraft,
- world-wide web