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expansive::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Synonyms | talkative |
| Derivation | expansiveness, expansivity |
wine made the guest expansive.
expansive::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
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| Derivation | expand, expansiveness |
the expansive force of fire.
expansive::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
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Examples of expansive
expansive
The main residence sits on almost 58 acres boasting expansive gardens and woods.
From the forbes.com
The choreography is expansive and expressive, permeated with a sense of longing.
From the timesunion.com
Stereo speakers are housed just below the LCD, and the sound is quite expansive.
From the washingtontimes.com
Chu gutted the place and the new design has given it a sleek but expansive look.
From the ocregister.com
In my test car, the dashboard was a broad, unattractive expansive of dark vinyl.
From the businessweek.com
Yet Kagan's expansive silence leaves a broad range of plausible interpretations.
From the washingtonpost.com
So far, the country has contained social pressures with an expansive safety net.
From the nytimes.com
Built on the outskirts of town, the college enjoys an expansive greenfield site.
From the independent.co.uk
To hand such an expansive policy to such an inept government is a fool's errand.
From the economist.com
- Able or tending to expand or characterized by expansion; "Expansive materials"; "the expansive force of fire"
- Of behavior that is impressive and ambitious in scale or scope; "an expansive lifestyle"; "in the grand manner"; "collecting on a grand scale"; "heroic undertakings"
- Marked by exaggerated feelings of euphoria and delusions of grandeur
- Friendly and open and willing to talk; "wine made the guest expansive"
- (expansively) in an impressively expansive manner; "she managed to live rather expansively on her modest income"
- (expansively) ebulliently: in an ebullient manner; "Khrushchev ebulliently promised to supply rockets for the protection of Cuba against American aggression"
- (expansiveness) effusiveness: a friendly open trait of a talkative person
- In mathematics, the notion of expansivity formalizes the notion of points moving away from one-another under the action of an iterated function. The idea of expansivity is fairly rigid, as the definition of positive expansivity, below, as well as the Schwarz-Ahlfors-Pick theorem demonstrate.
- Able to be expanded; Comprehensive in scope or extent; Talkative and sociable
