Definition for Wide:

• So as to leave or have a great space between the sides; so as to form a large opening.

Synonyms for Wide:

• adj.

  •across-the-board (adjective)
  • total,
  • encompassing,
  • broad in content,
  • panoptic,
  • all-encompassing,
  • including all categories,
  • all-embracing,
  • global,
  • blanket,
  • wide,
  • including all members.
  •ample (adjective)
  • bountiful,
  • bounteous,
  • unrestricted,
  • generous,
  • plenty,
  • great,
  • rich,
  • spare,
  • enough,
  • plentiful,
  • profuse,
  • abounding,
  • galore,
  • abundant,
  • copious,
  • heavy,
  • big,
  • lavish,
  • plenteous.
  •broad (adjective)
  • permissive,
  • unlimited,
  • experienced,
  • unbiased,
  • open-minded,
  • wide-ranging,
  • cultivated.
  •broad-minded (adjective)
  • indulgent,
  • responsive,
  • dispassionate,
  • receptive,
  • flexible,
  • unprejudiced,
  • cosmopolitan.
  •capacious (adjective)
  • comfortable,
  • sizable.
  •catholic (adjective)
  • indeterminate,
  • unsectarian,
  • eclectic,
  • planetary,
  • ecumenical,
  • World-wide,
  • charitable.
  •cavernous (adjective)
  • sunken,
  • Socketed,
  • sepulchral,
  • echoing,
  • huge,
  • yawning,
  • gaping,
  • concave,
  • resonant.
  •commodious (adjective)
  • more convenient.
  •comprehensive (adjective)
  • lock stock barrel,
  • worksest,
  • synoptic,
  • more umbrella,
  • most comprising,
  • more containing,
  • more synoptic,
  • most wall to wall,
  • across board,
  • most wall-to-wall,
  • most synoptic,
  • workser,
  • more comprising,
  • more wall-to-wall,
  • more wall to wall,
  • dis-cursive,
  • more encircling,
  • the whole shebang,
  • dis cursive,
  • most encircling,
  • most umbrella,
  • most containing.
  •deep (adjective)
  • subaqueous,
  • under ground,
  • subterranean,
  • fathomless,
  • downreaching,
  • inmost.
  •dishonest (adjective)
  • untrue.
  •erroneous (adjective)
  • inaccurate.
  •expansive (adjective)
  • more expanding,
  • more dilatant,
  • most expanding,
  • more unsuppressed,
  • un repressed,
  • most dilatant,
  • un-repressed,
  • un-suppressed,
  • more stretching,
  • most unsuppressed,
  • un suppressed,
  • expanding,
  • more unrepressed,
  • stretching,
  • more scopious,
  • most scopious,
  • unsuppressed,
  • most stretching,
  • most unrepressed.
  •extended (adjective)
  • outspread.
  •extensive (adjective)
  • un-exclusive,
  • wall wall,
  • un exclusive,
  • ex-tensive,
  • more unexclusive,
  • wall to wall,
  • more extensive,
  • ex tensive,
  • most unexclusive.
  •far-reaching (adjective)
  • far-reaching,
  • far-ranging.
  •general (adjective)
  • more matter-of-course,
  • most comprehending,
  • more comprehending,
  • taken as whole,
  • most matter of course,
  • un eventful,
  • more matter of course,
  • un confined,
  • un-eventful,
  • taken as a whole,
  • matter-of-course,
  • re gular,
  • re-gular,
  • un-confined,
  • most matter-of-course,
  • pre vailing,
  • allaround.
  •generic (adjective)
  • more nonexclusive,
  • non exclusive,
  • most nonexclusive,
  • nonexclusive.
  •progressive (adjective)
  • forward-looking,
  • bleeding-heart,
  • reformist,
  • up-and-coming,
  • left of center,
  • gradual.
  •size (adjective)
  • magnificent,
  • dimensional,
  • portly,
  • long,
  • chunky,
  • voluminous,
  • bulky,
  • high,
  • corpulent,
  • measurable,
  • amplitudinous.
  •spacious (adjective)
  • most uncrowded,
  • un-crowded,
  • un crowded,
  • more uncrowded.
  •sweeping (adjective)
  • over-stated,
  • over stated,
  • thorough going,
  • thorough-going,
  • more thorough-going,
  • bird'seye,
  • more wholehog,
  • birds-eye,
  • over-drawn,
  • most whole hog,
  • most whole-hog,
  • wholehog,
  • allout,
  • over drawn,
  • most overdrawn,
  • un-qualified,
  • more overdrawn,
  • birds eye,
  • more whole hog,
  • un qualified,
  • bird eye,
  • birdeye,
  • most thorough-going,
  • more thorough going,
  • birdseye,
  • most wholehog,
  • most overstated,
  • most thorough going,
  • more whole-hog,
  • more overstated.
  •thick (adjective)
  • blubbery.
  •tolerant (adjective)
  • more excusing,
  • under standing,
  • long suffering,
  • most excusing,
  • longsuffering,
  • under-standing,
  • free easy.
  •unconditional (adjective)
  • un-mitigated,
  • de terminate,
  • out rightest,
  • out righter,
  • no ifs ands buts,
  • un equivocal,
  • un-mistakable,
  • un conditional,
  • un mistakable,
  • un constrained,
  • out-right,
  • out-righter,
  • all out,
  • de-terminate,
  • un-reserved,
  • un-conditional,
  • no fine print,
  • de finite,
  • un mitigated,
  • un-equivocal,
  • de-finite,
  • no holds barred,
  • out right,
  • un-questionable,
  • in-dubitable,
  • in dubitable.
  •unconditioned (adjective)
  • un conditioned,
  • un-conditioned.
  •unfathomed (adjective)
  • unsounded.
  •untrue (adjective)
  • Perjured,
  • in-constant,
  • mis-leading,
  • out line,
  • more forsworn,
  • un-true,
  • more unloyal,
  • un truest,
  • most dissembling,
  • un-truest,
  • un-trustworthy,
  • more dissembling,
  • twofaced,
  • most forsworn,
  • un-loyal,
  • un-truthful,
  • dis-loyal,
  • more prevaricating,
  • most prevaricating,
  • dis loyal,
  • un loyal,
  • un truer,
  • un-truer,
  • un true,
  • two faced,
  • Forsworn,
  • mis leading,
  • most unloyal,
  • more cheating.
  •wide (adjective)
  • expanded,
  • vast,
  • inclusive,
  • splay,
  • immense,
  • off the mark,
  • baggy,
  • loose,
  • off-target,
  • radical,
  • dilated,
  • remote,
  • Distended,
  • distant,
  • advanced,
  • liberal,
  • far-off,
  • encyclopedic,
  • off,
  • squat,
  • outstretched.
  •wide of the mark (adjective)
  • wide of mark,
  • nihil ad rem,
  • beside point,
  • off course,
  • not on target,
  • far afield.
  •wrong (adjective)
  • not working,
  • on the wrong track,
  • ungrounded,
  • not right,
  • sophistical,
  • not precise,
  • misfigured,
  • Misconstrued,
  • fluffed.

• adv.

  •far and wide (adverb)
  • far wide,
  • far near,
  • near far.

• adv

  •far and wide (adverb)
  • far and near,
  • great lengths,
  • near and far.

• n.

  •
  • Everything,
  • the sum total,
  • wholesale,
  • altogether,
  • overall,
  • all-or-nothing,
  • complete,
  • all,
  • whole.
  •
  • ubiquitous,
  • worldwide,
  • generalized,
  • tighten,
  • all over the place,
  • diffuse.
  •
  • incorrect,
  • questionable,
  • approximately,
  • inexact,
  • broadly,
  • roughly,
  • approximate.
  •
  • king-size.
  •
  • detailed,
  • elaborate,
  • general,
  • blow-by-blow,
  • edited,
  • 101,
  • broad-brush,
  • descriptive.
  •
  • little.
  •all-inclusive (noun)
  • all-inclusive.
  •as much as possible (noun)
  • in full measure,
  • to the fullest,
  • simply,
  • as soon/quickly/much etc. as possible,
  • to the max,
  • (up) to the hilt,
  • as far as possible.
  •astray (noun)
  • astray.
  •beamy (noun)
  • beamy.
  •broad-brimmed (noun)
  • broad-brimmed.
  •citywide (noun)
  • citywide.
  •comprehensive (noun)
  • comprehensive.
  •considerable (noun)
  • considerable.
  •countrywide (noun)
  • countrywide.
  •countywide (noun)
  • countywide.
  •covering (noun)
  • covering.
  •extensive (noun)
  • large-scale,
  • universal.
  •fanlike (noun)
  • fanlike.
  •full (noun)
  • full.
  •immense (noun)
  • boundless.
  •overhanging (noun)
  • overhanging.
  •overspreading (noun)
  • overspreading.
  •panoramic (noun)
  • panoramic.
  •round-eyed (noun)
  • round-eyed.
  •schoolwide (noun)
  • schoolwide.
  •sparse (noun)
  • far,
  • separated,
  • scattered,
  • away.
  •spreading (noun)
  • spreading.
  •statewide (noun)
  • statewide.
  •sweeping (noun)
  • sweeping.
  •wide (noun)
  • wide-screen,
  • widely,
  • wide-eyed,
  • in width,
  • opened,
  • wide-spreading,
  • nationwide,
  • in breadth,
  • wide-cut.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • mythic,
  • disseminate,
  • constrict,
  • breadth,
  • mammoth,
  • hefty,
  • broaden,
  • larger-than-life,
  • oversized,
  • swingeing,
  • mountainous,
  • overblown,
  • far-flung,
  • full-scale,
  • macro,
  • princely,
  • strew,
  • cosmic,
  • width,
  • widespread.
  •
  • radiate,
  • substantial,
  • disperse,
  • monster,
  • yawn,
  • abysmal.
  •
  • handsome,
  • triple,
  • noble,
  • gape.
  •
  • distribute,
  • giant.
  •
  • explosive,
  • scatter.
  •
  • superior.
  •
  • spread.
  •across-the-board
  • across the board.
  •as much as possible
  • utmost,
  • the utmost,
  • uttermost,
  • most.
  •bird's-eye
  • bird's eye.

Paraphrases for Wide:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    broad-ranging.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Adjective
    wide-reaching, wide-spread.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    expansive, enormous, highest, spacious, nationwide, worldwide, different, numerous, detailed, encompassing, profound, lengthy, much, sizable, thorough.
  • Proper noun, singular
    data.
  • Noun, plural
    concessions, directions, baselines, levels, locations, allowances, corners, limits, regions, ladders, localities, Boundaries, parameters, seas, places, coasts.
  • Adverb
    largely, comprehensively, much.
  • Verb, past tense
    Began.

• Other Related

  • Determiner
    extensive.
  • Preposition or subordinating conjunction
    extensive.
  • Adjective
    wide-ranging, wide-scale, broad-based, wideranging, massive, far-reaching, overwhelming, wide-range, sweeping, broadly-based, widespread, ample, varied, wide-angle, immense, extensive, tremendous, wide-area, all-embracing, diversified, width, government-wide, sizeable, pervasive, full-scale, overarching, large, generous, intensive, diameter.
  • Proper noun, singular
    widespread, extensive, width, large.
  • Noun, plural
    proportions, widths, width.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    wide-range, widespread, extensive, width.
  • Adverb
    width, large.

Antonyms for Wide:

• adj.

  • all
    narrow.
  • ample
    insufficient, not enough, meager.
  • broad
    close-minded, small-minded, small.
  • capacious
    tiny, Squeezed.
  • catholic
    narrow-minded, specific.
  • cavernous
    filled.
  • expansive, roomy
    limited, empty, little, miniature, trivial.
  • wide
    cramped, on-course, straight.
  • Other antonyms:
    contracted, restricted, incomprehensive, mean, hairlike, bottleneck, infinitesimal, paper thin, undersized, constricted, attenuated, short, tight, slight, reedlike, noncomprehensive, inconsiderable, scanty, tightened, brief, stingy, paltry, diminutive, minute, scrimpy, shut, insignificant, fine, meagre, compressed, microscopic, elongate, trifling, condensed, circumscribed, close, meagerly, petty, attenuate.

Wide Sentence Examples:

• She was wide awake in a second.

• Ethel Newberry's large, innocent eyes opened wide.

Homophones for Wide:

• why'd, wyden.