expansive
adjective
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- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 adjective
able or tending to expand or characterized by expansion
Expansive materials
Related & opposite
- unexpansive antonym
- expansiveness derivation
- expand derivation
- inflate derivation
- expand derivation
- expand derivation
- expand derivation
- distensible similar to
- erectile similar to
- expandable similar to
- inflatable similar to
Sense 2 adjective
of behavior that is impressive and ambitious in scale or scope
an expansive lifestyle
Related & opposite
- expansiveness derivation
- enormousness derivation
- impressive similar to
Sense 3 adjective
marked by exaggerated feelings of euphoria and delusions of grandeur
Related & opposite
- psychiatry domain topic
- euphoric similar to
Sense 4 adjective
friendly and open and willing to talk
wine made the guest expansive
Related & opposite
- effusiveness derivation
- garrulity derivation
- talk derivation
- communicatory similar to
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | antonym | Related & opposite | unexpansive |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | expansiveness |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | expand |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | inflate |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | expand |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | expand |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | expand |
| 1 | similar to | Related & opposite | distensible |
| 1 | similar to | Related & opposite | erectile |
| 1 | similar to | Related & opposite | expandable |
| 1 | similar to | Related & opposite | inflatable |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | expansiveness |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | enormousness |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | impressive |
| 3 | domain topic | Related & opposite | psychiatry |
| 3 | similar to | Related & opposite | euphoric |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | effusiveness |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | garrulity |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | talk |
| 4 | similar to | Related & opposite | communicatory |