单词 | expansive |
释义 | expansive —expansively, adv. —expansiveness, n. /ik span"siv/, adj. 1. having a wide range or extent; comprehensive; extensive: expansive mountain scenery. 2. (of a person's character or speech) effusive, unrestrained, free, or open: Our expansive host welcomed us warmly. 3. tending to expand or capable of expanding. 4. causing expansion: the expansive force of heat. 5. working by expansion, as an engine. 6. Psychiatry. marked by an abnormal euphoric state and by delusions of grandeur. [1645-55; EXPANS(ION) + -IVE] Syn. 2. sociable, extroverted, outgoing, genial, unreserved; gushy, gushing. |
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