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expansive 音标拼音: [ɪksp'ænsɪv] a. 易膨胀的,易扩张的 易膨胀的,易扩张的 expansive adj 1: able or tending to expand or characterized by expansion; " Expansive materials"; " the expansive force of fire" [ ant: { unexpansive}] 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" [ synonym: { expansive}, { grand}, { heroic}] 3: marked by exaggerated feelings of euphoria and delusions of grandeur 4: friendly and open and willing to talk; " wine made the guest expansive" [ synonym: { expansive}, { talkative}] euphoric \ euphoric\ adj. strongly experiencing a feeling of well- being; feeling euphoria. Opposite of { dysphoric}. [ Narrower terms: { expansive}] Syn: elated, happy. [ WordNet 1. 5]
Expansive \ Ex* pan" sive\ ([ e^] ks* p[ a^] n" s[ i^] v), a. [ Cf. F. expansif.] 1. Having a capacity or tendency to expand or dilate; diffusive; of much expanse; wide- extending; as, the expansive force of heat; the expansive quality of air. [ WordNet sense 1] [ 1913 Webster] A more expansive and generous compassion. -- Eustace. [ 1913 Webster] His forehead was broad and expansive. -- Prescott. 2. causing expansion; as, the expansive force of heat. [ 1913 Webster PJC] 3. of much expanse; wide- extending; as, an expansive view of the mountains. [ PJC] 4. friendly, open, and unrestrained in conversation or discourse; -- of people; as, wine made the guest expansive. [ WordNet sense 4] Syn: effusive, talkative. [ WordNet 1. 5] 5. characterized by exaggerated feelings of euphoria and delusions of grandeur. [ WordNet sense 3] [ WordNet 1. 5] -- { Ex* pan" sive* ly}, adv. -{ Ex* pan" sive* ness}, n. [ 1913 Webster] 116 Moby Thesaurus words for " expansive": accessible, affable, airy, all jaw, all- embracing, all- inclusive, amiable, ample, amplitudinous, approachable, big, bouncy, broad, buoyant, candid, capacious, chatty, commodious, communicable, communicative, comprehensive, conversable, conversational, copious, deep, demonstrative, dilatable, dilatant, distensive, easy, effervescent, effusive, elastic, enlarging, expandable, expanding, expansible, expansile, expansional, extendable, extended, extending, extensible, extensile, extensional, extensive, extroverted, far- reaching, flip, fluent, frank, free, free- speaking, free- spoken, free- tongued, friendly, full, gabby, garrulous, gassy, generous, genial, glib, gossipy, great, gregarious, gushy, infinite, inflatable, inflationary, large, lavish, liberal, long- winded, loquacious, multiloquent, multiloquious, newsy, open, openhanded, outgoing, outspoken, overtalkative, prolix, resilient, roomy, scopic, self- revealing, self- revelatory, smooth, sociable, spacious, spreading, talkative, talky, unconstrained, unhampered, unrepressed, unreserved, unrestrained, unrestricted, unreticent, unsecretive, unshrinking, unsilent, unsuppressed, vast, verbose, volatile, voluble, voluminous, warm, wide, wide- ranging, widespread, windy
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