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Definition of expansive in English: expansiveadjective ɛkˈspansɪvɪkˈspansɪvɪkˈspænsɪv 1Covering a wide area in terms of space or scope; extensive. Example sentencesExamples - So, when I pull into the parking lot and see the expansive empty area in front, it almost appears as if the store is closed.
- Along with five cinemas, the largest of which can seat 250 customers, there will also be a coffee shop and seating area in the expansive lobby.
- Unlike the destruction caused by an earthquake, which may affect several buildings across an expansive area, this disaster involved many buildings and a massive debris pile in a small, confined area.
- As a farmer, he proved canny in cattle dealing and land purchase with the result that his holding is now one of the most expansive in the area.
- To provide sufficient privacy while still getting the expansive outdoor living spaces he and his family wanted, he'd have to come up with some clever maneuvers.
- The going wasn't easy, as they fought their way out of a thick bramble forest the first day, and, during the second day, found themselves entering a wide, expansive plain.
- The Black Rock Desert is a place of sublime expansive space.
- When you have a substantial home surrounded by a small yard, it can be difficult to create the illusion of having an expansive garden and inviting spaces for outdoor living.
- Yet much of the current discussion uses the term in a more expansive way to mean just about any comprehensive worldview.
- This day's lunch was prepared and offered within the expansive area of the teaching kitchens, a change from the previous evening.
- He is proving to be a capable fielder - even in the expansive area of his home park.
- Business travellers will appreciate the expansive meeting space and a business centre which offers secretarial support and translations.
- It continues to thrive as an expansive gallery space where, in a relatively short period of time, you can view works from more than 60 artists.
- Pendant lamps and a simplified pattern of coffers lend definition to the dining area, while in the more expansive family room area, the ceiling rises to a peak.
- The results of this review are sufficiently encouraging to warrant further and more expansive studies in this area of considerable public health importance.
- The buffet runs Sunday to Friday and is held in the large expansive dining area that runs off the hotel's foyer area.
- This thankfully flat area of expansive squares and elegant, grid-patterned streets is Lisbon's main shopping precinct.
- This is a little village, a farm, a pub, a few old sandstone houses and an expansive sea view wide enough to show the curve of the earth.
- This expansive yard and storage area will be a focal point for the festival.
- Notice the wider decorative elements which function as an expansive area for the picture.
Synonyms extensive, sweeping, rolling spacious wide-ranging, extensive, broad, wide, all-embracing, comprehensive, thorough, inclusive, cross-disciplinary, interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary 2(of a person or their manner) relaxed and genially frank and communicative. he was in an expansive mood Example sentencesExamples - Although it would probably work, while inebriated Chris tended to have a massively expansive personality, and he exaggerated an awful lot.
- He was expansive and funny and didn't ask questions.
- The reason it worked as a film - even if it didn't do any business - is that the characters were always expansive.
- The women were more expansive when offered the chance to suggest the kinds of services they would like to see offered in the community.
- We start low and slow but ultimately we should always find a very ecstatic and expansive manner in which to proclaim our peace.
- A colossus - in girth at least - he felt he could engulf the United States in his expansive personality.
- They provide a perfect context for the aestheticized sophisticate, validating his expansive personality and style.
- At fourteen, Patrick had an expansive personality, one built to collide with rectory decorum.
- It may just be that you're expansive and not good at playing games or hiding your feelings.
- He never went further than that to his family, though it's possible that he was more expansive as an evening wore on at the Navy Club among old comrades.
- She is a very charismatic actor so it doesn't take all that much to establish her as a beloved, expansive grandmother, endlessly giving and loyal.
- His father was an outgoing, large and expansive man while his mother was a polite, passive person who Tom describes as a pushover.
- Something about it fills us with such joy that we are able to let go of our every day petty grievances and be the full and expansive people we are.
- I'm a talker and an expansive extrovert, yet in my poetry, particularly my lyrical poetry, I like to have things as distilled as possible.
- People are really expansive and ready to be up there and give of themselves you know, and be at their best.
- The officers seem to have been chosen for this task by sheer force of their outgoing, expansive personalities.
- It's not that they were perfect, but they were expansive, engaged and disciplined.
Synonyms communicative, forthcoming, sociable, friendly, outgoing, unreserved, uninhibited, open, affable, amiable, genial, chatty, talkative, conversational, garrulous, loquacious, voluble, effusive, demonstrative, extrovert, extroverted discursive informal talky 3Tending towards economic or political expansion. expansive domestic economic policies Example sentencesExamples - What if at any moment either of them had advocated an expansive view of sexual politics?
- As an economic system, capitalism is expansive: there is a never-ending search for new markets and more profit.
- However, if negative surprises act as negative shocks, expansive monetary policy is likely to lead to inflation.
- In a commencement speech at military school, the president announced an expansive new policy of pre-emptive military action.
- This is the most expansive of the regional political models.
- A vibrant and expansive economy produces jobs and innovations.
- And when there are people looking for work and they can't find a job, it means we're going to continue to try to put pro-growth, expansive policies in place.
- Overly expansive government policies would raise inflation and cause a balance-of-payments deficit, which put downward pressure on the pound.
- The finance ministers had managed to limit the impact of fiscal retrenchment somewhat by an expansive monetary policy.
- One expense is budgetary, the price of an expansive foreign policy.
- After all, has any empire ever managed to be both expansive and politically correct?
- But underlying that narrowly expansive go-it-alone foreign policy are the Republican wars here at home.
- Hours after getting the Nobel news on October 10, he spoke to reporters about his expansive approach to economics.
- His ambitious Great Society symbolized the expansive policies of liberalism.
- But although torpedo boats might defend the capital, they were of no account in an expansive foreign policy; it was battleships and bases which were needed.
- In 1856 the financial climate was favorable to a more expansive policy towards company formation.
Derivatives adverb ɪkˈspansɪvliɛkˈspansɪvli When he found out I was just arriving from Kansas, he spread his arms expansively and barked, ‘Welcome to New York!’ Example sentencesExamples - We withdrew in that second half, we didn't play as expansively as we can.
- Both are reluctant to talk about it too expansively because it marks how successful they have been in ‘convincing’ suppliers to help.
- The principles for the protection of minorities are expansively spelled out in this resolution, much of which are also guaranteed in our Constitution.
- The fire spits comfortably in the grate, the lawns outside the window stretch expansively, and it is obvious that he has done well.
noun ɛkˈspansɪvnəsɪkˈspansɪvnəsɪkˈspænsɪvnəs The Guggenheim, which more than any other art museum epitomized the heady expansiveness of the 1990s economy, has suffered more than most. Example sentencesExamples - What really captivated me about this book is what I can only call its expansiveness, its sense of literary grace and play in the telling of history.
- When we entered the cemetery, I was immediately struck by the sense of peace and expansiveness that pervaded the place.
- Breathing in and out for an equal length of time is another way to experience expansiveness and balance.
- This expansiveness raised problems of rhetoric and tone.
Definition of expansive in US English: expansiveadjectiveikˈspansivɪkˈspænsɪv 1Covering a wide area in terms of space or scope; extensive or wide-ranging. Example sentencesExamples - Yet much of the current discussion uses the term in a more expansive way to mean just about any comprehensive worldview.
- It continues to thrive as an expansive gallery space where, in a relatively short period of time, you can view works from more than 60 artists.
- Notice the wider decorative elements which function as an expansive area for the picture.
- The results of this review are sufficiently encouraging to warrant further and more expansive studies in this area of considerable public health importance.
- To provide sufficient privacy while still getting the expansive outdoor living spaces he and his family wanted, he'd have to come up with some clever maneuvers.
- When you have a substantial home surrounded by a small yard, it can be difficult to create the illusion of having an expansive garden and inviting spaces for outdoor living.
- Along with five cinemas, the largest of which can seat 250 customers, there will also be a coffee shop and seating area in the expansive lobby.
- Business travellers will appreciate the expansive meeting space and a business centre which offers secretarial support and translations.
- Unlike the destruction caused by an earthquake, which may affect several buildings across an expansive area, this disaster involved many buildings and a massive debris pile in a small, confined area.
- So, when I pull into the parking lot and see the expansive empty area in front, it almost appears as if the store is closed.
- He is proving to be a capable fielder - even in the expansive area of his home park.
- This is a little village, a farm, a pub, a few old sandstone houses and an expansive sea view wide enough to show the curve of the earth.
- Pendant lamps and a simplified pattern of coffers lend definition to the dining area, while in the more expansive family room area, the ceiling rises to a peak.
- The going wasn't easy, as they fought their way out of a thick bramble forest the first day, and, during the second day, found themselves entering a wide, expansive plain.
- As a farmer, he proved canny in cattle dealing and land purchase with the result that his holding is now one of the most expansive in the area.
- This thankfully flat area of expansive squares and elegant, grid-patterned streets is Lisbon's main shopping precinct.
- The buffet runs Sunday to Friday and is held in the large expansive dining area that runs off the hotel's foyer area.
- This day's lunch was prepared and offered within the expansive area of the teaching kitchens, a change from the previous evening.
- The Black Rock Desert is a place of sublime expansive space.
- This expansive yard and storage area will be a focal point for the festival.
Synonyms extensive, sweeping, rolling wide-ranging, extensive, broad, wide, all-embracing, comprehensive, thorough, inclusive, cross-disciplinary, interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary 2(of a person or their manner) open, demonstrative, and communicative. she felt expansive and inclined to talk Example sentencesExamples - I'm a talker and an expansive extrovert, yet in my poetry, particularly my lyrical poetry, I like to have things as distilled as possible.
- His father was an outgoing, large and expansive man while his mother was a polite, passive person who Tom describes as a pushover.
- It may just be that you're expansive and not good at playing games or hiding your feelings.
- At fourteen, Patrick had an expansive personality, one built to collide with rectory decorum.
- She is a very charismatic actor so it doesn't take all that much to establish her as a beloved, expansive grandmother, endlessly giving and loyal.
- The women were more expansive when offered the chance to suggest the kinds of services they would like to see offered in the community.
- He was expansive and funny and didn't ask questions.
- The officers seem to have been chosen for this task by sheer force of their outgoing, expansive personalities.
- We start low and slow but ultimately we should always find a very ecstatic and expansive manner in which to proclaim our peace.
- People are really expansive and ready to be up there and give of themselves you know, and be at their best.
- Although it would probably work, while inebriated Chris tended to have a massively expansive personality, and he exaggerated an awful lot.
- The reason it worked as a film - even if it didn't do any business - is that the characters were always expansive.
- He never went further than that to his family, though it's possible that he was more expansive as an evening wore on at the Navy Club among old comrades.
- They provide a perfect context for the aestheticized sophisticate, validating his expansive personality and style.
- A colossus - in girth at least - he felt he could engulf the United States in his expansive personality.
- It's not that they were perfect, but they were expansive, engaged and disciplined.
- Something about it fills us with such joy that we are able to let go of our every day petty grievances and be the full and expansive people we are.
Synonyms communicative, forthcoming, sociable, friendly, outgoing, unreserved, uninhibited, open, affable, amiable, genial, chatty, talkative, conversational, garrulous, loquacious, voluble, effusive, demonstrative, extrovert, extroverted 3Tending toward economic or political expansion. expansive domestic economic policies Example sentencesExamples - Hours after getting the Nobel news on October 10, he spoke to reporters about his expansive approach to economics.
- A vibrant and expansive economy produces jobs and innovations.
- One expense is budgetary, the price of an expansive foreign policy.
- But underlying that narrowly expansive go-it-alone foreign policy are the Republican wars here at home.
- The finance ministers had managed to limit the impact of fiscal retrenchment somewhat by an expansive monetary policy.
- After all, has any empire ever managed to be both expansive and politically correct?
- What if at any moment either of them had advocated an expansive view of sexual politics?
- However, if negative surprises act as negative shocks, expansive monetary policy is likely to lead to inflation.
- But although torpedo boats might defend the capital, they were of no account in an expansive foreign policy; it was battleships and bases which were needed.
- In 1856 the financial climate was favorable to a more expansive policy towards company formation.
- In a commencement speech at military school, the president announced an expansive new policy of pre-emptive military action.
- And when there are people looking for work and they can't find a job, it means we're going to continue to try to put pro-growth, expansive policies in place.
- This is the most expansive of the regional political models.
- Overly expansive government policies would raise inflation and cause a balance-of-payments deficit, which put downward pressure on the pound.
- His ambitious Great Society symbolized the expansive policies of liberalism.
- As an economic system, capitalism is expansive: there is a never-ending search for new markets and more profit.
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