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wide

adjective
- 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"
Synonyms: broad Antonyms: narrow Similar: beamy, bird's-eye, panoramic, broad-brimmed, citywide, countywide, countrywide, nationwide, deep, heavy, thick, in width, in breadth, schoolwide, spreading, wide-spreading, statewide, stretching, wide-spreading, sweeping, wide-screen, fanlike - 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
Synonyms: across-the-board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, blanket, broad, encompassing, panoptic Similar: comprehensive - (used of eyes) fully open or extended; "listened in round-eyed wonder"; "stared with wide eyes"
Synonyms: round-eyed, wide-eyed Similar: open, opened
adverb
- with or by a broad space; "stand with legs wide apart"; "ran wide around left end"
- to the fullest extent possible; "open your eyes wide"; "with the throttle wide open"
- far from the intended target; "the arrow went wide of the mark"; "a bullet went astray and killed a bystander"
Synonyms: astray
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