expansive

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

adjective

1. able or tending to expand or characterized by expansion
- Expansive materials
- the expansive force of fire
• Ant:
unexpansive
• Similar to:
distensible, erectile, cavernous, expandable, expandible,
expansible, inflatable
• Derivationally related forms:
expand, expansiveness
2. of behavior that is impressive and ambitious in scale or scope
- an expansive lifestyle
- in the grand manner
- collecting on a grand scale
- heroic undertakings
• Syn:
grand, heroic
• Similar to:
impressive
• Derivationally related forms:
grandness (for: grand), expansivity, expansiveness
3. marked by exaggerated feelings of euphoria and delusions of grandeur
• Similar to:
euphoric
• Topics:
psychiatry, psychopathology, psychological medicine
4. friendly and open and willing to talk
- wine made the guest expansive
• Syn:
talkative
• Similar to:
communicative, communicatory
• Derivationally related forms:
talkativeness (for: talkative), talk (for: talkative), expansivity, expansiveness

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  talkative, grand, heroic