单词 | unexpansive |
释义 | unexpansive (once / 622069 pages) adj WORD FAMILY expansive: expansively, expansiveness, expansivity, unexpansive+/expand: expandable, expanded, expanding, expands, expansible, expansion, expansive/expansion: expansionism, expansions/expansionism: expansionist USAGE EXAMPLESThe Jewish religion was essentially conservative and unexpansive. Lecky, William Edward Hartpole, History of European Morals From Aug...(2012) A shy young foreigner, awkward in ladies' company, unexpansive and self-opinionated, it was improbable that, in any circumstances, he would have been a society success. Strachey, Lytton, Queen Victoria(2011) He was cold, distant and unexpansive in manner and had more followers than friends. Sheehan, D. D. (Daniel Desmond), Ireland Since Parnell(2010) 1adj showing no tendency to expand unexpansive bodies Ant expansive able or tending to expand or characterized by expansion distensiblecapable of being distended; able to stretch and expand cavernous, erectilefilled with vascular sinuses and capable of becoming distended and rigid as the result of being filled with blood expandable, expandible, expansibleable to expand or be expanded inflatabledesigned to be filled with air or gas 2adj not given to high spirits or effusiveness an unexpansive man Syn restrained under restraint |
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