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Expansive   /ɪkspˈænsɪv/   Listen
adjective
Expansive  adj.  
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. "A more expansive and generous compassion." "His forehead was broad and expansive."
2.
Causing expansion; as, the expansive force of heat.
3.
Of much expanse; wide-extending; as, an expansive view of the mountains.
4.
Friendly, open, and unrestrained in conversation or discourse; of people; as, wine made the guest expansive.
Synonyms: effusive, talkative.
5.
Characterized by exaggerated feelings of euphoria and delusions of grandeur.





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... Whalley and others did their best to dispel, probably expedited the completion of the through connection. At any rate, it did not hinder progress among the hills. In this, the "long looked-for arrival of the world-wide famed iron-horse," as an expansive journalistic scribe put it, at Carno, was celebrated by rejoicings, and a dinner given by Mr. David Davies to his foremen and a presentation by him of a purse of 50 pounds to the "meritorious engine-driver, Mr. Richard Metcalfe." Toasts were honoured, and Mr. Davies giving ...
— The Story of the Cambrian - A Biography of a Railway • C. P. Gasquoine
... comprehend, than she would find that the elusive subject had slipped from her grasp, and her whole mind would be fixed upon the problem of how long it would take a fly to crawl all the way across the expansive back of Mrs. Graham, who sat in the pew ...
— The Wide Awake Girls in Winsted • Katharine Ellis Barrett
... that this mode of replying affords full swing to the expansive charities of Boult and his brethren, and is a sure method of saving the expenditure of $10, although Boult is to get that amount back when the ...
— The Humbugs of the World • P. T. Barnum
... pressure thus produced increases the impaction. A ring of edematous mucosa quickly forms and covers the presenting part of the object, leaving visible only a small surface in the center of an acute edematous stenosis. A forceps with narrow, stiff, expansive-spring jaws may press back a portion of the edema and may allow a grasp on the sides of the foreign body; but usually the attempt to apply forceps when there are no spaces between the presenting part of the foreign ...
— Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy - A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery • Chevalier Jackson
... head bent. She put her candle on the mantelpiece, and then, folding her arms over her expansive bosom, which a fine white dressing-jacket hardly covered, ...
— The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 (of 8) - Boule de Suif and Other Stories • Guy de Maupassant


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