expansive

Examples

• All

• His voice was extremely soft, almost indescribably so, yet it had an unusual expansive quality to it.

  Fiction book (1993)

• This is made possible by an expansive set of digestive enzymes.

• Like I just felt like this when I would have a good trip, which is to say, you know, a truly expansive, beautiful trip.

• Studies of individual countries also show the adverse effects of expansive government deposit insurance.

  Academic text (2016)

• And sometimes meditation or prayer are the most expansive and consistent ways to be able to do that.

• The brown mat of the water, so expansive in sunlight.

  Fiction book (2000)

• It's been so eye opening, so intention opening, so expansive to the horizons of my own small little life.

• May your thoughts be emboldened, expansive, inventive, inspired and evolving.

• Marvin pulls up to a gated estate sporting expansive grounds and a hotel-sized main building.

  Fiction book (1991)

• The artist created an expansive mural that covered the entire wall of the gallery.

Synonyms

E

expandable

vsexpansive

7 4.2

Something that can become larger or hold more

describes the characteristic of tending to grow rather than just being enlargable

E

extendable

vsexpansive

1 3.7

Can be made longer or larger

covers general increase in size or scope beyond mere lengthening

E

expansible

vsexpansive

7.3

Able to get bigger in size or volume

shows a tendency to increase in size or scope rather than mere capacity

E

expandible

vsexpansive

5.0

That can become larger in size

shows a natural tendency to increase rather than only potential to enlarge

E

extendible

vsexpansive

4.4

Able to become longer or larger for more use

applies more broadly to increasing overall size, volume, or scope

E

extensible

vsexpansive

6.3

Can stretch to become longer, like a tongue or tape

is about expanding in size, volume, or scope rather than stretching form

E

extensile

vsexpansive

• Specialized

8.7

Can stretch out like a tongue or arm to reach farther than usual

describes a general tendency to expand in size or scope

Antonyms

R

restrictive

52 4.7

Limits what people can do by rules or laws

C

contractive

7.3

Tending to make something smaller or bring parts closer together

Compounds

E

expansive bit

• Specialized

9.2

A part for a drill that makes holes of different sizes

How Expandable

extensible

2 6.2

expansive

7 5.8

stretchable

1 2.6

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology