Wide

Adjective

 * 1) Having a large physical extent from side to side.
 * We walked down a wide corridor.
 * 1) Large in scope.
 * The inquiry had a wide remit.
 * 1)  Operating at the side of the playing area.
 * That team needs a decent wide player.

Antonyms

 * narrow (regarding empty area)
 * thin (regarding occupied area)
 * skinny (sometimes offensive, regarding body width)

Related terms

 * widely
 * widen
 * wideness
 * widescale
 * width
 * wide awake
 * wide of the mark


 * wide open
 * wide receiver
 * wide shot
 * wide-angle
 * wide-eyed
 * widescreen
 * widespread
 * worldwide

Adverb

 * 1) extensively
 * He travelled far and wide.
 * 1) completely
 * He was wide awake.
 * 1) away from a given goal
 * The arrow fell wide of the mark.

Noun

 * 1)  A ball that passes so far from the batsman that the umpire deems it unplayable; the arm signal used by an umpire to signal a wide; the extra run added to the batting side's score

Adverbs for Wide
amply; sufficiently; generously; unexpectedly; capaciously; voluminously; exceptionally; particularly; peculiarly; conveniently; commodiously; spaciously; advantageously; tremendously; immensely; adequately: suitably; properly; fortunately; outlandishly; unnecessarily.

Thesaurus
aberrant, abroad, abstract, accented, adrift, advanced, afield, all abroad, all off, all wrong, alveolar, amiss, ample, amplitudinous, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, articulated, askew, assimilated, astray, at fault, awry, back, barytone, beside the mark, bilabial, bland, broad, broad-gauged, broad-minded, broadly, cacuminal, capacious, catholic, central, cerebral, checked, clear, close, collective, commodious, comprehensive, consonant, consonantal, continuant, copious, corrupt, cosmopolitan, deceptive, deep, defective, delusive, dental, deviant, deviational, deviative, diffuse, dissimilated, distantly and broadly, distorted, dorsal, ecumenical, ecumenistic, errant, erring, erroneous, expansive, extended, extending, extensive, fallacious, false, far afield, far and near, far and wide, far-embracing, far-extending, far-flung, far-flying, far-going, far-ranging, far-reaching, faultful, faulty, featureless, flat, flawed, front, full, general, generalized, generic, generous, glide, glossal, glottal, guttural, hard, heavy, heretical, heterodox, high, illogical, illusory, indefinite, indeterminate, indiscriminate, infinite, intonated, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, large-scale, lateral, lax, liberal, light, lingual, liquid, low, mid, monophthongal, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, nebulous, neutral, noninsular, nonspecific, not right, not true, occlusive, off, off the track, open, out, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, peccant, perverse, perverted, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitch, pitched, posttonic, progressive, radical, retroflex, roomy, rounded, scopic, self-contradictory, semivowel, soft, sonant, spacious, spacious of mind, spreading, stopped, straying, stressed, strong, surd, sweeping, syllabic, tense, thick, throaty, tolerant, tonal, tonic, twangy, unaccented, unbigoted, uncharacterized, undifferentiated, unfactual, unfanatical, unhidebound, unorthodox, unparochial, unproved, unprovincial, unrounded, unspecified, unstressed, untrue, vague, vast, velar, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless, voluminous, vowel, vowellike, weak, wholesale, wide-extended, wide-extending, wide-minded, wide-ranging, wide-reaching, wide-stretching, widely, widespread, wrong

Etymology
wid:, from. Cognate with Dutch wijd:, German weit:, Swedish vid:.

Adjective

 * Albanian: gjerë
 * Arabic: واسع
 * Armenian: լայն
 * Belarusian: шырокі
 * Bulgarian: широк
 * Catalan: ample
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 寬, 宽, 寬廣, 宽广, 寬闊, 宽阔
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German: breit, weit
 * Greek: ευρύς, ευρεία
 * Hebrew: רחב
 * Hindi: चौड़ा
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Ido:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 広い, 幅広い
 * Korean: 넓은, 넓다


 * Kurdish: pan, pehn, fire, berfire,
 * Lithuanian: platus, plati , platu
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Old English: ,
 * Persian: پهن,
 * Pitjantjatjara: lipi
 * Polish: szeroki
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: leathann, farsaing, a leud
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: широк
 * Roman: širok
 * Slovak: široký
 * Slovene: širok
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: వెడల్పైన (veDalpaina)
 * Thai: กว้างใหญ่
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: широкий
 * Urdu: چوڑا
 * Vietnamese: rộng
 * Volapük: vidik
 * Welsh:

Adverb

 * Czech: ("široko daleko" = "far and wide")
 * Finnish:


 * Italian:
 * Swahili:


 * Finnish:


 * Swahili:


 * Finnish:


 * Swahili:

Adverb

 * 1) widely

Etymology
From wīd.