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Open English Wordnet Adjectives (a) wide , broad having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other “wide roads” ,
“a wide necktie” ,
“wide margins” ,
“three feet wide” ,
“a river two miles broad” ,
“broad shoulders” ,
“a broad river”
(a) wide great in degree “won by a wide margin”
(s) across-the-board , all-embracing , all-encompassing , all-inclusive , blanket , broad , encompassing , extensive , panoptic , wide broad in scope or content “across-the-board pay increases” ,
“an all-embracing definition” ,
“blanket sanctions against human-rights violators” ,
“an invention with broad applications” ,
“a panoptic study of Soviet nationality” (T.G.Winner) ,
“granted him wide powers”
(s) wide-eyed , wide (used of eyes) fully open or extended “stared with wide eyes”
(s) broad , spacious , wide very large in expanse or scope “a broad lawn” ,
“the wide plains” ,
“a spacious view” ,
“spacious skies”
(s) wide , wide-cut , full having ample fabric “the current taste for wide trousers” ,
“a full skirt”
(s) wide , wide of the mark not on target “the kick was wide” ,
“the arrow was wide of the mark” ,
“a claim that was wide of the truth”
Adverbs (r) wide with or by a broad space “stand with legs wide apart” ,
“ran wide around left end”
(r) wide to the fullest extent possible “open your eyes wide” ,
“with the throttle wide open”
(r) wide , astray far from the intended target “the arrow went wide of the mark” ,
“a bullet went astray and killed a bystander”
(r) wide , widely to or over a great extent or range; far “wandered wide through many lands” ,
“he traveled widely”