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expansive adjective [ ɪkˈspansɪv ]

• covering a wide area in terms of space or scope; extensive.
• "expansive beaches"
Similar: extensive, sweeping, rolling, spacious, wide-ranging, broad, wide, all-embracing, comprehensive, thorough, inclusive, cross-disciplinary, interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary,
Opposite: limited, restricted,
• (of a person or their manner) relaxed and genially frank and communicative.
• "he was in an expansive mood"
Similar: communicative, forthcoming, sociable, friendly, outgoing, unreserved, uninhibited, open, affable, amiable, genial, chatty, talkative, conversational, garrulous, loquacious, voluble, effusive, demonstrative, extrovert, extroverted, discursive, talky,
Opposite: uncommunicative, reserved, taciturn,
• tending towards economic or political expansion.
• "expansive domestic economic policies"


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