expansive
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7.7
- adjective
- /ɪkˈspænsɪv/
- Specialized
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expansivo
- He is beginning to feel expansive: his dark mood is thinning like a squirt of ink in alcohol's gentle solvent.
- an expansive mood
Where in your life do you feel the most energized and excited and expansive?
- Where in your life do you feel the most energized and excited and expansive?
Examples
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These are all brilliant, expansive emotions.
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But he was in a strangely expansive mood, at least for him.
Fiction book (2000) -
" Schiller was in an expansive mode.
Fiction book (1998) -
So the individual has three or more of these kinds of symptoms plus this elevated expansive and often quite irritable mood.
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In an expansive mood, he might tip a waitress nine percent, but such generosity withered early and died as his love of found money distilled at last to the Absolute with his retrieval of a damp twenty-dollar bill from the unpleasant floor of a YMCA men's room.
Fiction book (1994) -
At the party, he was in a particularly expansive mood, sharing stories and laughing loudly with everyone.
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Feeling expansive after his promotion, he confidently expressed his ideas during the meeting.
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After winning the award, she was in an expansive mood, celebrating with her friends and feeling on top of the world.
Synonyms
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7.5
Too big and showy in a way that tries to seem more important than it is
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7.6
Showing strong warm feelings openly and without holding back
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7.5
Being very lively or excited in a way that feels too much
Having goals or ideas that are too high and unrealistic
Antonyms
Compounds
How Euphoric
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Expansive comes from the Latin parts ex- 'out' and pandere 'to spread', the same root as expand. So an expansive mood is when feelings 'spread out' into big plans and an exaggerated sense of importance.