wide

wide
/waɪd / (say wuyd)

adjective (wider, widest)
1. having considerable or great extent from side to side; broad; not narrow.
2. having a certain or specified extent from side to side: three metres wide.
3. of great horizontal extent; extensive; vast; spacious: wide horizons.
4. of great range or scope; embracing a great number or variety of subjects, cases, etc.: wide reading; wide experience; wide knowledge.
5. open to the full or a great extent; expanded; distended: to stare with wide eyes.
6. full, ample, or roomy, as clothing.
7. apart or remote from a specified point or object: a guess wide of the truth.
8. too far or too much to one side: a wide ball in cricket.
9. Horseracing away from the inside fence of a racetrack: the horse drawn wide faces a disadvantage.
–adverb
10. to a great, or relatively great, extent from side to side: open wide.
11. over an extensive space or region, or far abroad: scattered far and wide.
12. to the full extent of opening: to open your mouth wide.
13. to the utmost, or fully: to be wide awake; *life's really pretty crummy, and if you go doing a generous action towards it, like having a baby, then you're leaving yourself wide open, and life takes the opportunity to kick you right in the face. –criena rohan, 1962.
–noun
14. Cricket a bowled ball that passes outside the batsman's reach, and counts as a run for the side batting.
15. Bowls a delivery making too great an allowance for the bias of the bowl, and thus not curving inward sufficiently.
–phrase
16. go wide, to go away from or to one side of a point, mark, purpose, or the like; go aside or astray: the shot went wide.
17. wide of the mark,
a. a long way astray of what is aimed at.
b. badly in error.
{Middle English; Old English wīd}
–wideness, noun
–widish, adjective

Australian English dictionary. 2014.

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