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EXPANSIVE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Friendly and open and willing to talk
Example:
wine made the guest expansive
Synonyms:
expansive; talkative
Classified under:
Similar:
communicative; communicatory (able or tending to communicate)
Derivation:
expansiveness; expansivity (a friendly open trait of a talkative person)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Marked by exaggerated feelings of euphoria and delusions of grandeur
Classified under:
Similar:
euphoric (exaggerated feeling of well-being or elation)
Domain category:
psychiatry; psychological medicine; psychopathology (the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Able or tending to expand or characterized by expansion
Example:
the expansive force of fire
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
distensible (capable of being distended; able to stretch and expand)
cavernous; erectile (filled with vascular sinuses and capable of becoming distended and rigid as the result of being filled with blood)
expandable; expandible; expansible (able to expand or be expanded)
inflatable (designed to be filled with air or gas)
Antonym:
unexpansive (showing no tendency to expand)
Derivation:
expand (become larger in size or volume or quantity)
expand (exaggerate or make bigger)
expand (expand the influence of)
expand (make bigger or wider in size, volume, or quantity)
expand (extend in one or more directions)
expansiveness (a quality characterized by magnificence of scale or the tendency to expand)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Of behavior that is impressive and ambitious in scale or scope
Example:
heroic undertakings
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
impressive (making a strong or vivid impression)
Derivation:
expansiveness; expansivity (a quality characterized by magnificence of scale or the tendency to expand)
