| 单词 | expansive |
| 释义 | expansive (once / 2368 pages) adj Expansive is all about being able to grow or get larger. An expansive piece of land is large, an expansive mind is one that is always thinking of the big picture, an expansive vocabulary is one that holds lots of words. Warning: don't confuse expansive, "large," with expensive, "high priced." They differ by only one letter but mean very different things. A Big Mac may contain what McDonald's advertizes as an expansive all-beef patty, but it isn't expensive food. WORD FAMILYexpansive: expansively, expansiveness, expansivity, unexpansive+/expand: expandable, expanded, expanding, expands, expansible, expansion, expansive/expansion: expansionism, expansions/expansionism: expansionist USAGE EXAMPLES“Restraints disappear, and the field is open to the most expansive claims and the most implacable actors,” he writes. Washington Post(Jan 01, 2017) Carter, punk, and the expansive cultural impulse that brought this random family together are about to be supplanted by the Reagan era. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) Specifically, she mentions Anita Baker, a vocalist with a similarly expansive palette. Washington Post(Dec 28, 2016) 1adj able or tending to expand or characterized by expansion Expansive materials the expansive force of fire Syn|Ant distensible capable 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 unexpansive showing no tendency to expand 2adj of behavior that is impressive and ambitious in scale or scope an expansive lifestyle Syn grand, heroic impressive making a strong or vivid impression 3adj friendly and open and willing to talk wine made the guest expansive Syn talkative communicative, communicatory able or tending to communicate 4adj marked by exaggerated feelings of euphoria and delusions of grandeur Syn euphoric exaggerated feeling of well-being or elation |
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