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wide

[wahyd] / waɪd /
ADJECTIVE
expansive, roomy
Synonyms
STRONGEST
ample broad deep expanded extensive far-reaching full immense large loose spacious vast
WEAK
advanced all-inclusive baggy capacious catholic commodious comprehensive dilated distended encyclopedic far-ranging general inclusive large-scale liberal open outspread outstretched radical scopic splay squat sweeping tolerant universal voluminous
Antonyms
STRONGEST
limited little miniature narrow restricted small tiny
WEAK
cramped straight
ADJECTIVE
off-course
Synonyms
STRONGEST
away far off remote
STRONG
astray
WEAK
distant far-off inaccurate off the mark off-target
Antonyms
WEAK
on-course on-target

Example Sentences

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Kickers are landing more from out wide too.

From BBC • Apr. 24, 2026

One measures approximately 1 meter high and 1.5 meters wide, while the other is about 0.9 meters by 0.7 meters.

From Science Daily • Apr. 23, 2026

Weather betting has become popular on prediction markets, with a wide range of bets on city temperatures available across Polymarket and Kalshi.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 23, 2026

Such practices “spanned a wide spectrum of projects in what appeared to be a company-wide pattern of financial misrepresentation and misleading disclosures,” the lawsuit states.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2026

In life he’d stood taller than the tallest man, and the span of his gleaming black horns had been almost as wide.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver