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Wide
wʌɪd
- of great or more than average width
"a wide road"
broad extensive spacious open vast spread out outspread baggy loose capacious roomy ample full generous generously cut commodious voluminous oversize- (after a measurement and in questions) from side to side
"it measures 15 cm long by 12 cm wide"
- open to the full extent
"his eyes were wide with fear"
- considerable
"tax revenues have undershot Treasury projections by a wide margin"
- including a great variety of people or things
"a wide range of opinion"
comprehensive ample broad extensive large large-scale vast immense far-ranging wide-ranging expansive sweeping encyclopedic exhaustive general all-inclusive all-embracing universal catholic compendious cross-disciplinary interdisciplinary multidisciplinary- spread among a large number of people or over a large area
"the government's desire for wider share ownership"
- considering or dealing with the more general aspects of a situation, issue, etc.
"the wider implications of the dispute"
- extending over the whole of
"an industry-wide trend"
- at a considerable or specified distance from an intended point or target
"the ball was wide of the leg stump"
- (especially in soccer) at or near the side of the field
"he played in a wide left position"
- to the full extent
"his eyes opened wide"
- far from a particular or intended point or target
"his final touchline conversion drifted wide"
- (especially in football) at or near the side of the field
"he will play wide on the right"
- a ball that is judged to be too wide of the stumps for the batter to play, for which an extra is awarded to the batting side