Open

Adjective

 * 1)  Which is not closed; accessible; unimpeded; as, an open gate.
 * Turn left after the second open door.
 * 1) * 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, Chapter 2
 * The open road, the dusty highway...
 * It was as if his body had gone to sleep standing up and with his eyes open.
 * 1)  Actively conducting or prepared to conduct business.
 * Banks are not open on bank holidays.
 * 1)  Receptive.
 * I am open to new ideas.
 * 1)  Public; as, an open letter, an open declaration.
 * He published an open letter to the governor on a full page of the New York Times.
 * 1)  Candid, ingenuous, not subtle in character:
 * The man is an open book.
 * 1)  Having a free variable.
 * 2)  Is part of a predefined collection of subsets of $$X$$, that defines a topological space on $$X$$.
 * 3)  In current use; mapped to part of memory.
 * I couldn't save my changes because another user had the same file open.

Synonyms

 * accessible, unimpeded

Antonyms

 * closed, shut

Derived terms

 * break open
 * clopen
 * drop open
 * half-open
 * keep a weather eye open
 * keep an eye open
 * lay open
 * open-air
 * open-and-shut
 * open-armed
 * open bar
 * open cluster
 * open-collar
 * open compound
 * open content
 * open design
 * open-ended
 * open-eyed
 * open-face
 * open-faced
 * open fireplace
 * open goal
 * open-handed/openhanded
 * open heart surgery
 * open-hearted
 * open-hearth
 * open house


 * open interest
 * open letter
 * open listing
 * open loop
 * open marriage
 * open matte
 * open mic
 * open mind
 * open-mouthed
 * open outcry
 * open outsourcing
 * open-plan
 * open problem
 * open proxy
 * open sandwich
 * open sea
 * open season
 * open secret
 * open sight
 * open source
 * open system
 * open water
 * open-work
 * openable
 * openside
 * Open University
 * wide open
 * with open arms

Verb

 * 1)  To make something accessible or removing an obstacle to something being accessible.
 * Turn the doorknob to open the door.
 * 1)  To bring up (a topic).
 * I don't want to open that subject.
 * 1)  To make accessible to customers or clients.
 * I will open the shop an hour early tomorrow.
 * 1)  To start (a campaign).
 * Vermont will open elk hunting season next week.
 * 1)  To become open.
 * The door opened all by itself.
 * 1)  To begin conducting business.
 * The shop opens at 9:00.
 * 1)  To begin a side's innings as one of the first two batsmen.
 * 2)  To bet before any other player has in a particular betting round in a game of poker.
 * After the first two players fold, Julie opens for $5.
 * 1)  To reveal one's hand.
 * Jeff opens his hand revealing a straight flush.
 * 1)  To load into memory for viewing or editing.

Antonyms

 * close, shut

Derived terms

 * open a can of whoop ass
 * open fire
 * open one's big mouth
 * open sesame


 * open shop
 * open the attack
 * open the face
 * open up
 * reopen

Noun

 * 1) A sports event in which anybody can contest; as, the Australian Open.
 * 2)  a wire that is broken midway.
 * The electrician found the open in the circuit after a few minutes of testing.
 * 1) (with the) Open or unobstructed space; an exposed location.
 * I can't believe you left the lawnmower out in the open when you knew it was going to rain this afternoon!
 * Wary of hunters, the fleeing deer kept well out of the open, dodging instead from thicket to thicket.
 * 1) (with the) Public knowledge or scrutiny; full view.
 * We have got to bring this company's corrupt business practices into the open.

Adverbs for Open
invitingly; mysteriously; conveniently; comfortably; advantageously; yawningly; widely; constantly; continually; evidently; palpably; apparently; indulgently; allowably; legally; officially; hospitably; unconditionally; currently; generously; broadly; liberally; helpfully; rarely; partially; tempestuously; listlessly; conveniently; drowsily; automatically; haphazardly; incautiously; beneficently; cautiously; unwarily; modestly; invitingly; portentously; prematurely; symmetrically.

Thesaurus
Spartan, abandoned, aboveboard, absolute, accented, acceptable, accessible, activate, admissible, admissive, admissory, adumbrate, advertise, affirmed, afford, agape, agreeable, air, ajar, aloof, altruistic, alveolar, ambiguous, amenable, amiable, announce, announced, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, apparent, approachable, appropriate, arguable, articulated, artless, ascetic, assimilated, at issue, attainable, austere, authentic, available, back, bald, bare, barytone, be a gas, be a hit, begin, beholdable, beneficent, bighearted, bilabial, bill, billow, blatant, bluff, blunt, bomb, bona fide, born yesterday, bounteous, bountiful, branch, branch out, brazen, breach, break, break the seal, bring out, bring to light, broach, broad, broadcast, broken, brought to notice, brusque, cacuminal, campestral, campestrian, candid, central, cerebral, champaign, charitable, check, checked, childlike, chink, circulated, clear, cleared, cleave, close, come-at-able, commence, common, common knowledge, common property, commonplace, communicate, communicative, conditional, conditioned, confiding, consonant, consonantal, conspicuous, contingent, continuant, contribute, conversable, cordial, cover, crack, crevasse, current, cut, cut apart, cut open, debatable, declared, dehiscent, deltoid, demonstrative, dental, denuded, dependent, depending, deploy, deserted, detached, detectable, develop, diffused, dilate, direct, discernible, disclose, disclosed, disconnected, discontinuous, discover, discrete, dismask, dispart, disperse, display, disposed, disrupt, disseminated, dissimilated, distend, distributed, ditch, divaricate, divide, divulge, dorsal, downright, dramatize, draw the veil, dry, dubious, dubitable, dull, effusive, embark, employable, equivocal, establish, evident, exhibit, expand, expansive, explain, explicit, expose, exposed, exposed to view, extend, extended, extensive, extroverted, fail, fair, fair and square, fan, fan out, fan-shape, fan-shaped, fanlike, fanned, fanning, feature, findable, fissure, fit, flabelliform, flagrant, flare, flared, flaring, flat, flexible, flop, fly open, forsaken, forthright, foursquare, fracture, frank, frankhearted, free, free hand, free-acting, free-going, free-moving, free-speaking, free-spoken, free-tongued, freehanded, freehearted, friendly, front, full, furnish, furrow, gap, gaping, gapped, gash, generous, genial, genuine, get, get going, get under way, getatable, gettable, giving, glaring, glide, glossal, glottal, godforsaken, good-faith, gossipy, gracious, greathearted, groove, guileless, guttural, handsome, hanging out, hard, headline, heart-to-heart, hearty, heavy, high, hint, hole, homely, homespun, honest, hospitable, humanitarian, idle, illimitable, imbibitory, impart, impressionable, in circulation, in evidence, in full view, in plain sight, in print, in question, in suspense, in the balance, in view, inaugurate, incise, inclined, incoherent, inconsistent, indecisive, influenceable, ingenu, ingenuous, ingestive, initiate, innocent, insight, intonated, introduce, intromissive, intromittent, invitatory, inviting, kick off, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, large, largehearted, lateral, launch, lavish, lax, lay bare, lay open, lean, leisure, leisured, let daylight in, let out, liable, liberal, light, limitless, lingual, liquid, low, made public, magnanimous, make a hit, make known, make plain, malleable, manifest, mantle, matter-of-fact, melodramatize, mid, monophthongal, moot, mount, movable, munificent, muted, naive, naked, narrow, nasal, nasalized, natural, navigable, neat, neighborly, newsy, no strings, nonadherent, nonadhesive, noncoherent, noncohesive, nonimmune, noticeable, obnoxious, observable, obtainable, obvious, occlusive, offer, on the level, on the square, on the up-and-up, ope, open a show, open air, open and aboveboard, open as day, open fire, open to, open to all, open to view, open up, open-handed, open-minded, openhanded, openhearted, operative, out-of-doors, outcropping, outdoors, outgoing, outland, outside, outspoken, outspread, outstretch, outstretched, overgrow, overrun, overspread, overt, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, palpable, part, passable, patent, patulous, peeled, pendent, pending, penetrable, perceivable, perceptible, perfect, perforate, persuadable, persuasible, pervious, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pierce, pitch, pitched, plain, plain-speaking, plain-spoken, plastic, pleasing, plenary, pliable, pliant, posttonic, practicable, predisposed, premiere, present, preview, princely, problematic, proclaimed, procurable, produce, profuse, prone, propagated, proper, prosaic, prosing, provide, public, publish, published, pull out, pure, put on, raise, raise the curtain, ramify, reachable, receivable, receptible, receptive, recipient, recognizable, release, rent, reported, responsive, retired, retroflex, reveal, revealed, rift, ringent, rip, rive, roomy, round, rounded, rupture, rustic, scenarize, securable, seeable, self-revealing, self-revelatory, semiretired, semivowel, sensitive, separate, set in motion, set the stage, set up, severe, shadow, show, show forth, show up, showing, simple, simple-speaking, simplehearted, simpleminded, sincere, single-hearted, single-minded, sit, slash, slit, slot, sober, sociable, soft, sonant, spacious, spare, splay, splayed, splaying, split, spraddle, spraddled, spraddling, sprangle, sprangled, sprangling, sprawl, sprawling, sprawly, spread, spread like wildfire, spread out, spreading, spring open, square, square-dealing, square-shooting, stage, star, stark, start, stated, stintless, stopped, straight, straight-out, straight-shooting, straightforward, stressed, stretch out, stretched-out, strip bare, stripped, strong, suasible, subject, succeed, suggest, suggestible, suitable, surd, susceptible, suspenseful, swayable, swell, swing open, syllabic, talkative, tap, tear, tear open, telecast, televised, tenantless, tense, tenuous, the open, the out-of-doors, theatricalize, thick, throaty, throw open, to be had, to be seen, tonal, tonic, transparent, trench, trustful, trusting, try out, twangy, unaccented, unadhesive, unadorned, unaffected, unbar, unbarred, unblock, unblocked, unbolt, unbolted, unbooked, unbound, unbounded, uncertain, unchecked, uncircumscribed, unclassified, uncloak, unclog, unclogged, unclosed, unclothe, unclouded, uncluttered, uncoherent, uncohesive, uncommitted, unconcealed, unconditional, unconditioned, unconfined, unconnected, unconstrained, uncork, uncounted, uncover, uncovered, undecided, undefended, undetermined, undisguised, undissembled, undissembling, undo, undrape, unencumbered, unequivocal, unestablished, unfasten, unfastened, unfilled, unfixed, unfold, unfolded, unfortified, unfurl, ungrudging, unguarded, unhampered, unhidden, unhindered, unimaginative, unimpeded, uninhabited, uninhibited, unjoined, unkennel, unlatch, unlimited, unlock, unlocked, unmanned, unmask, unmeasured, unobstructed, unoccupied, unpack, unpeopled, unpopulated, unprotected, unqualified, unrepressed, unreserved, unresolved, unrestrained, unrestricted, unreticent, unroll, unrounded, unscheduled, unscreen, unseal, unsealed, unsecretive, unselfish, unsettled, unsheathe, unsheltered, unshrinking, unshroud, unshut, unsigned, unsilent, unsophisticated, unsparing, unstaffed, unstinted, unstinting, unstop, unstopped, unstressed, unsuppressed, unsuspicious, untaken, untenacious, untenanted, untended, untie, untold, unvarnished, unveil, unwary, unwrap, up for grabs, up-and-up, usable, vacant, velar, veritable, viewable, visible, visual, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless, vowel, vowellike, warm, warmhearted, weak, welcoming, well-known, wide, wide open, wide-open, widely known, widen, widespread, willing, within reach, without, without strings, witnessable, yawning, yield

Etymology
open, from (compare  offan:), from  "up from under, over". Cognate with German offen, Low German apen and Swedish öppen.

Adjective

 * American Sign Language:,  ,  ,
 * Arabic:
 * Egyptian Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:, ,
 * Catalan: obert
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 開, 开
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:, ,
 * Estonian: lahtine
 * Finnish:, ; (adverb)
 * French:, , ,
 * Georgian: ღია
 * German: ,
 * Greek: (anoichtós)
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: खुला
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Irish: ,
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 開ける
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 開ける


 * Khmer: ដែលបើក, ដែលចំហរ
 * Kurdish:
 * Latin: apertum
 * Latvian: atvērts, atvērta
 * Malayalam: തുറന്ന (thuRanna)
 * Maltese: ,
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk:
 * Occitan: ,
 * Old French:
 * Persian: باز
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: avert,  aviert
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Slovene: odprt, odprta , odprto
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: తెరిచిన (terichina)
 * Turkish:
 * Urdu: کھلا
 * Welsh: agored
 * West Frisian:
 * Telugu: తెరిచిన (terichina)
 * Turkish:
 * Urdu: کھلا
 * Welsh: agored
 * West Frisian:
 * Welsh: agored
 * West Frisian:


 * Armenian: բաց (bac')
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: obert
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: ,
 * Estonian: avatud
 * Finnish:, (adverbs)
 * French:, , , oubertes
 * German: ,
 * Greek: (anoichtós)
 * Hebrew:
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: 営業中
 * Latin: apertum
 * Latvian: atvērts, atvērta
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Slovene: odprt, odprta , odprto
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * West Frisian:


 * Armenian: բաց (bac')
 * Bulgarian:, , податлив, склонен, непредубеден
 * Catalan: obert
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:, , ,
 * German:


 * Greek: (anoichtós)
 * Hebrew:
 * Italian:
 * Latin: apertum
 * Latvian: atvērts, atvērta
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Slovene: odprt, odprta
 * Swedish:


 * Armenian: բաց (bac')
 * Bulgarian:, явен, общодостъпен, , свободен, обществен, публичен
 * Catalan: obert, lliure
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: avalik
 * Finnish:
 * French:, , ,


 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Italian:
 * Latin: apertum
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:, ,
 * Russian:
 * Slovene: javen, javna , javno
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * West Frisian:


 * Finnish:


 * Hebrew: פתוחה


 * German: offene


 * Hebrew: פתוחה


 * Finnish: ;, (adverbs)


 * : (maftūħ)
 * : ricevema, akceptema (3)
 * : apertar
 * : deschis, deschisă , deschişi , deschise
 * : wazi
 * : açık

Verb

 * Albanian: çel, hap
 * American Sign Language:,  ,  ,
 * Arabic:
 * Egyptian Arabic:
 * Armenian: ,
 * Azeri: açmaq
 * Belarusian: адкрываць, адкрыць
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan: obrir
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,  ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: åbne, lukke op
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Ewe:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek: (anígo)
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian: ,


 * Ido:
 * Interlingua:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Khmer: បើក
 * Korean:
 * Latin: aperio
 * Latvian:
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Occitan:
 * Old French:
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: avrir,  arver,  earver,  duvrir,  darveir,  rivir,  drivir
 * Russian:,  ; отворять , отворить  a door only
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbo-Croatian: отворити, otvoriti
 * Slovak: otvoriť
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: తెరుచు (teruchu)
 * Thai: (bpèrt)
 * Ukrainian: відкривати, відкрити
 * Urdu: کھولنا
 * Vietnamese: mở


 * Armenian: բարձրացնել (bardzrac'nel)
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: alustama
 * Finnish: ottaa esille, avata keskustelu
 * Greek: (anoígo)
 * Hungarian:


 * Latin: aperio
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ta upp
 * Thai: (bpèrt) (เปิดประเด็น)


 * Armenian:
 * Catalan: obrir
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: openen, openmaken
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Ewe:
 * Finnish:
 * German: ,
 * Greek: (anoígo)
 * Hungarian:
 * Kurdish:


 * Latin: aperio
 * Latvian: atvērt
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Slovene: odpreti (1,2,3)
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: తెరుచు (teruchu)
 * Thai: (bpèrt)


 * Czech:
 * Danish: indlede
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: avama
 * Finnish:
 * German:


 * Norwegian:
 * Polish: rozpocząć
 * Russian: разворачивать, развернуть
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: inleda


 * American Sign Language:,  ,  ,
 * Armenian:
 * Czech: otevřít se
 * Danish: åbnes
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: avanema
 * Ewe:
 * Finnish:
 * German: öffnete sich
 * Greek: (anoígo)
 * Hindi: खुलना


 * Hungarian: ,
 * Irish:
 * Kurdish:
 * Latin: aperio
 * Latvian: atvērt
 * Norwegian: åpnes
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romansch: s'avrir,  sarver,  searver,  saduvrir,  sa darveir,  as avrir,  as rivir,  as drivir
 * Russian:,  ; отворяться , отвориться  a door only
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Slovene: odpreti (se)
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: öppnas, öppna sig
 * Thai: (bpèrt)
 * Urdu: کھلنا


 * Armenian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Ewe:
 * Finnish:
 * German: ,
 * Greek: (anoígo)


 * Latin: aperio
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Slovene: odpreti (1,2,3)
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:


 * Swahili:


 * : отварям
 * : ekparoli pri (2)
 * : ouvrir (1), (3), entamer (4)
 * Hebrew:, העלה, פצח, נפתח
 * : buka
 * : abrir (1, 3)
 * : a deschide
 * : otvoriť
 * : kufungua
 * : açmak (1,2,3)
 * : s'ouvrir (5,6)
 * : açmak(5,6)
 * : agor

Noun

 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * Swahili:


 * Estonian: katkestus
 * Finnish:


 * Swahili:


 * French:


 * French:

Anagrams

 * nope, Nope
 * peon
 * pone

Adjective

 * 1) open

Derived terms

 * openbaar
 * openbaren

Antonyms

 * gesloten

Etymology
From *undefined:, from.

Anagrams

 * nope

Noun
open



Noun

 * 1)  tournament

Etymology
open:

Adjective

 * 1) open
 * Kvifor er døra open?
 * Why is the door open?

Etymology
From opinn:.

Adjective
open



Etymology
. Originally a past participle of. Akin to ūp "up"