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Adjective wide has 8 senses
- wide, broad - having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other; "wide roads"; "a wide necktie"; "wide margins"; "three feet wide"; "a river two miles broad"; "broad shoulders"; "a broad river"
Antonyms: narrow, constricting, constrictive, narrowed, slender, thin, strait, straplike, tapered, tapering, narrowing
- across-the-board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, blanket, broad, encompassing, panoptic, wide - broad in scope or content; "across-the-board pay increases"; "an all-embracing definition"; "blanket sanctions against human-rights violators"; "an invention with broad applications"; "a panoptic study of Soviet nationality"- T.G.Winner; "granted him wide powers"
Antonyms: noncomprehensive, incomprehensive (indirect, via comprehensive)
- round-eyed, wide-eyed, wide - (used of eyes) fully open or extended; "listened in round-eyed wonder"; "stared with wide eyes"
Antonyms: closed, shut (indirect, via open)
- broad, spacious, wide - very large in expanse or scope; "a broad lawn"; "the wide plains"; "a spacious view"; "spacious skies"
Antonyms: small, little (indirect, via large, big)
Antonyms: small, little (indirect, via large, big)
- wide - great in degree; "won by a wide margin"
Antonyms: narrow, bare, marginal
- extended, extensive, wide - great in range or scope; "an extended vocabulary"; "surgeons with extended experience"; "extensive examples of picture writing"; "suffered extensive damage"; "a wide selection"
Antonym: inconsiderable (indirect, via considerable)
- wide, wide-cut, full - having ample fabric; "the current taste for wide trousers"; "a full skirt"
Antonyms: meager, meagre, meagerly (indirect, via ample)
- wide, wide of the mark - not on target; "the kick was wide"; "the arrow was wide of the mark"; "a claim that was wide of the truth"
Antonym: accurate (indirect, via inaccurate)
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