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broad::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
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| Synonyms | large-minded, liberal, tolerant |
a broad political stance.
generous and broad sympathies.
broad::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
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| Synonyms | wide |
| Derivation | broadness |
a river two miles broad.
broad shoulders.
a broad river.
| Type | Words |
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| Synonyms | across-the-board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, blanket, encompassing, extensive, panoptic, wide |
an invention with broad applications.
broad::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
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a broad southern accent.
Examples of broad
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The room offers broad river vistas of the river through large expanses of glass.
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Light and dark become broad strokes to emphasize the mood he's trying to create.
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The goal is to erase a $10 billion deficit without increasing broad-based taxes.
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Do you favor a broad granting of authority allowing phone companies to go ahead?
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One broad category is finding backups for suppliers or essential work functions.
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As mentioned, there are a number of other ferns with distinctively broad fronds.
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I seriously doubt that this broad view will be considered in this local dispute.
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The possibilties are broad and are compatible with apps right across the device.
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Budget writers lauded their colleagues for maintaining broad bipartisan support.
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- Slang term for a woman; "a broad is a woman who can throw a mean punch"
- Wide: 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"
- Across-the-board: 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"
- Not detailed or specific; "a broad rule"; "the broad outlines of the plan"; "felt an unspecific dread"
- Lacking subtlety; obvious; "gave us a broad hint that it was time to leave"
- Broad(a): being at a peak or culminating point; "broad daylight"; "full summer"
- Very large in expanse or scope; "a broad lawn"; "the wide plains"; "a spacious view"; "spacious skies"
- Broad (first name and dates unknown) was an English cricketer who played for Addington and Surrey during the 1740s.
- (The Broads) The Broads are a network of mostly navigable rivers and lakes in the English counties of Norfolk and Suffolk. ...
