Pronunciation Adjective
wide (comparative wider, superlative widest)
- Having a large physical extent from side to side.
- We walked down a wide corridor.
- Large in scope.
- The inquiry had a wide remit.
- (sports) Operating at the side of the playing area.
- That team needs a decent wide player.
- On one side or the other of the mark; too far sideways from the mark, the wicket, the batsman, etc.
- Too bad! That was a great passing-shot, but it's wide.
- Surely he shoots wide on the bow hand.
- I was but two bows wide.
- (phonetics, dated) Made, as a vowel, with a less tense, and more open and relaxed, condition of the organs in the mouth.
- (Scotland, Northern England, now rare) Vast, great in extent, extensive.
- The wide, lifeless expanse.
- (obsolete) Located some distance away; distant, far. [15th–19th c.]
- 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 81:
- Mr Hunt's house, you know, lies wide from Harlowe-place.
- the contrary being so wide from the truth of Scripture and the attributes of God
- 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 81:
- (obsolete) Far from truth, propriety, necessity, etc.
- 1644, John Milton, The Doctrine or Discipline of Divorce:
- And I trust anon by the help of an infallible guide, to perfect such Prutenic tables, as shall mend the astronomy of our wide expositors.
- It is far wide that the people have such judgments.
- How wide is all this long pretence!
- (computing) Of or supporting a greater range of text characters than can fit into the traditional 8-bit representation.
- a wide character; a wide stream
- narrow (regarding empty area)
- thin (regarding occupied area)
- skinny (sometimes offensive, regarding body width)
- French: large
- German: breit, weit
- Italian: largo, ampio
- Portuguese: largo, amplo
- Russian: широ́кий
- Spanish: ancho, amplio, ancha, amplia
- Spanish: amplio
- Spanish: lateral
wide (comparative wider, superlative widest)
- extensively
- He travelled far and wide.
- completely
- He was wide awake.
- away from a given goal
- The arrow fell wide of the mark.
- A few shots were fired but they all went wide.
- So as to leave or have a great space between the sides; so as to form a large opening.
- Italian: largo
wide (plural wides)
- (cricket) 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
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