What is another word for widest?

Pronunciation: [wˈa͡ɪdəst] (IPA)

The word "widest" means having the greatest measure from side to side. Synonyms for the word "widest" include "broadest," "most extensive," "most comprehensive," "most expansive," "most spacious," and "most widespread." These synonyms can be used interchangeably to describe anything with a wide or broad scope. "Broadest" implies the most extensive width while "most extensive" suggests an area that covers a large space. "Most comprehensive" emphasizes the inclusiveness of a thing, while "most expansive" suggests an area that has no limits. "Most spacious" emphasizes the emptiness or adequacy of a specific area, while "most widespread" suggests that something exists or happens over a vast range.

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Usage examples for Widest

Secretly she prepared for flight, getting together the few necessary things she could carry; then, with the child in her arms, she stole out one evening and began her flight, which took her all across England at its widest part, and ended at this small coast town, the best hiding-place she could think of.
"Afoot in England"
W.H. Hudson
If I were here telling a story of the Paronsina, or indeed any story at all, I might suffer myself to enlarge somewhat upon the daily order of her secluded life, and show how the seclusion of other Venetian girls was the widest liberty as compared with hers; but I have no right to play with the reader's patience in a performance that can promise no excitement of incident, no charm of invention.
"A Fearful Responsibility and Other Stories"
William D. Howells
17,061. But 36 inches is the widest that is commonly sold?
"Second Shetland Truck System Report"
William Guthrie

Famous quotes with Widest

  • I'm very pro presenting the best music I can to the widest audience possible.
    Lesley Garrett
  • Some people act as though art that is for a mass audience is not good art, and I think this has been a very negative thing. I know that I have wanted very much to write books that are accessible to the widest audience possible.
    Bell Hooks
  • Within this widest concept of object, and specifically within the concept of individual object, Objects and phenomena stand in contrast with each other.
    Edmund Husserl
  • The greatest legacy is that which benefits the widest number of people for the longest period without limit to value. No one but the Prophet Muhammad was given that role as the seal of God's message.
    Cat Stevens
  • Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.
    William Osler

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