expansiveadjective
uk/ɪkˈspæn.sɪv/us/ɪkˈspæn.sɪv/expansive adjective (TALKING)
formal very happy to talk to people in a friendly way:
He was in an expansive mood on the night of the party.
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Talkative and eloquent
- articulate
- chatterbox
- communicative
- cry
- eloquent
- expressive
- garrulous
- gift
- gossip
- in full cry idiom
- lucid
- mouth
- oratory
- silver-tongued
- smooth
- talkative
- the gift of the gab idiom
- turn of phrase
- voluble
- well turned
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expansive adjective (LARGE)
covering a large area:
There was an expansive view from the window.
"All this is mine," she said with an expansive arm gesture (= using big movements).
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Big and quite big
- appreciable
- baronial
- burly
- capacious
- commodious
- fair
- grand
- heavy
- juicy
- L, l
- large-scale
- largish
- macro
- mass
- side
- spacious
- supersize
- swamp
- sweeping
- the bigger the better idiom
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expansively
adverb uk/ɪkˈspæn.sɪv.li/us/ɪkˈspæn.sɪv.li/
expansiveness
noun [ U ] uk/ɪkˈspæn.sɪv.nəs/us/ɪkˈspæn.sɪv.nəs/