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Definitions for Wide

[1] having considerable or great extent from side to side; broad: a wide boulevard.
[2] having a certain or specified extent from side to side: three feet wide.
[3] of great horizontal extent; extensive; vast; spacious: the wide plains of the West.
[4] of great range or scope; embracing a great number or variety of subjects, cases, etc.: wide experience.
[5] open to the full or a great extent; expanded; distended: to stare with wide eyes.
[6] apart or remote from a specified point or object: a guess wide of the truth.
[7] too far or too much to one side: a shot wide of the mark.
[8] Baseball . outside(def 16) : The pitch was wide of the plate.
[9] full, ample, or roomy, as clothing: He wore wide, flowing robes.
[10] Phonetics . lax(def 7) .
[11] British Slang . shrewd; wary.
[12] to the full extent of opening: Open your mouth wide.
[13] to the utmost, or fully: to be wide awake.
[14] away from or to one side of a point, mark, purpose, or the like; aside; astray: The shot went wide.
[15] over an extensive space or region, or far abroad: scattered far and wide.
[16] to a great, or relatively great, extent from side to side: The river runs wide here.
[17] Cricket . a bowled ball that goes wide of the wicket, and counts as a run for the side batting.
[18] Archaic . a wide space or expanse.
[19] a combining form of wide, forming from nouns adjectives with the general sense “extending or applying throughout a given space,” as specified by the noun: communitywide; countrywide; worldwide.
[20] having a great extent from side to side
[21] of vast size or scope; spacious or extensive
[22] (postpositive) having a specified extent, esp from side to side two yards wide (in combination) covering or extending throughout nationwide
[23] distant or remote from the desired point, mark, etc your guess is wide of the mark
[24] (of eyes) opened fully
[25] loose, full, or roomy wide trousers
[26] exhibiting a considerable spread, as between certain limits a wide variation
[27] phonetics another word for lax (def. 4), open (def. 34)
[28] over an extensive area to travel far and wide
[29] to the full extent he opened the door wide
[30] far from the desired point, mark, etc
[31] (in cricket) a bowled ball that is outside the batsman's reach and scores a run for the batting side
[32] archaic , or poetic a wide space or extent
[33] to the wide completely

Words related to Wide

full, ample, broad, loose, deep, far-reaching, large, immense, spacious, extensive, vast, expanded, far, remote, away, off, astray, advanced, all-inclusive, baggy

Words nearby Wide

widal test, widder, widdershins, widdle, widdy, wide, wide area network, wide awake, wide boy, wide open, wide receiver

Origin of Wide

before 900; Middle English; Old English wīd; cognate with Dutch wijd, German weit, Old Norse vīthr

Other words from Wide

wide·ness , noun
o·ver·wide , adjective
o·ver·wide·ly , adverb
o·ver·wide·ness , noun
su·per·wide , adjective
ul·tra·wide , adjective

Word origin for Wide

Old English wīd; related to Old Norse vīthr, Old High German wīt

Synonyms for Wide

ample, broad, deep, expanded, extensive, far-reaching, full, immense, large, loose, spacious, vast, advanced, all-inclusive, baggy, capacious, catholic, commodious, comprehensive, dilated, distended, encyclopedic, far-ranging, general, inclusive, large-scale, liberal, open, outspread, outstretched, progressive, radical, scopic, splay, squat, sweeping, tolerant, universal, voluminous