wide-open
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1.1
- adjective
- /ˈwaɪdˈoʊpən/
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amplio
- The window in the room was found to be wide open.
- wide-open eyes
- wide-open mouths
And I fucking sat there with my mouth actually wide open like it dropped.
- And I fucking sat there with my mouth actually wide open like it dropped.
- And that left me an extraordinarily wide open field to run.
- Nothing to work around, just wide open space.
- If your pass is basically guaranteed because the guy is just wide open, throw the pass.
- So at like our bedroom door was wide open.
- But keep, keep your aperture wide open.
Examples
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This time the front door was wide open and I know I shut it closed the night before.
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Down there, the heat is wet and exhausting, and the land feels as wide open as the ocean.
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Nothing to work around, just wide open space.
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Plus it's wide open, beautiful clear sky.
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You walk across a wide open space.
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The door to that cage, it's wide open and it always has been.
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And that left me an extraordinarily wide open field to run.
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But it's time for me to hit the wide open skies, see what there is, see if there's anything else out there.
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Italy is wide open and the Austrians are scrambling to respond.
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The front door was wide-open, allowing a gentle breeze to flow through the house.
Synonyms
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1.0
Not closed so people or things can go through
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2.3
Completely open and available with nothing stopping access
Very wide open, often like a large hole or empty space
Antonyms
How Open
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Wide-open comes from the parts wide 'large' and open 'not closed'. So it pictures something left fully open, like a window, gate, or a mouth, and that is why it means 'completely open'.