wide open
Adjective
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Adjective
wide open (comparative wider open, superlative widest open)
- completely open
- The front door was wide open.
- 1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit
- It was a bright, sunny morning, and the windows stood wide open.
- having no laws or law enforcement
- It was a wide open frontier town before the railroad came.
- unsettled or unresolved
- The fate of the loan sailor is still wide open.
- vulnerable or unprotected
- He left himself wide open to criticism.
- (sports) without the presence of opponents nearby
- He was wide open and scored easily after receiving the pass.
- (finance) of the situation at the beginning of trading when there is a large spread between bid and ask prices
- French: grand ouvert
- Russian: настежь
- Spanish: de par en par
- French: incertain
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