Wide
[adv] to or over a great extent or range; far; "wandered wide through many lands"; "he traveled widely"
[adv] with or by a broad space; "stand with legs wide apart"; "ran wide around left end"
[adv] far from the intended target; "the arrow went wide of the mark"; "a bullet went astray and killed a bystander"
[adv] to the fullest extent possible; "open your eyes wide"; "with the throttle wide open"
[adj] not on target; "the kick was wide"; "the arrow was wide of the mark"; "a claim that was wide of the truth"
[adj] having ample fabric; "the current taste for wide trousers"; "a full skirt"
[adj] broad in scope or content; "across-the-board pay increases"; "an all-embracing definition"; "blanket sanctions against human-rights violators"; "an invention with broad applications"; "a panoptic study of Soviet nationality"- T.G.Winner; "granted him wide powers"
[adj] great in range or scope; "an extended vocabulary"; "surgeons with extended experience"; "extensive examples of picture writing"; "suffered extensive damage"; "a wide selection"
[adj] very large in expanse or scope; "a broad lawn"; "the wide plains"; "a spacious view"; "spacious skies"
[adj] (used of eyes) fully open or extended; "listened in round-eyed wonder"; "stared with wide eyes"
[adj] having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other; "wide roads"; "a wide necktie"; "wide margins"; "three feet wide"; "a river two miles broad"; "broad shoulders"; "a broad river"
[adj] great in degree; "won by a wide margin"
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Synonyms
across-the-board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, ample, astray, beamy, big, bird's-eye, blanket(a), broad, broad-brimmed, citywide, comfortable, comprehensive, considerable, countrywide, countywide, covering, deep, encompassing, extended,