Definition of WIDE

wide

Meanings

Plural: wides

Adjective

  • having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other
    • "wide roads"
    • "a wide necktie"
    • "wide margins"
    • "three feet wide"
  • great in degree
    • "won by a wide margin"

Adjective Satellite

  • broad in scope or content; ; ; ; ; - T.G.Winner
    • "granted him wide powers"
  • (used of eyes) fully open or extended
    • "stared with wide eyes"
  • very large in expanse or scope
    • "the wide plains"
  • having ample fabric
    • "the current taste for wide trousers"
  • not on target
    • "the kick was wide"
    • "the arrow was wide of the mark"
    • "a claim that was wide of the truth"

Adverb

  • with or by a broad space
    • "stand with legs wide apart"
    • "ran wide around left end"
  • to the fullest extent possible
    • "open your eyes wide"
    • "with the throttle wide open"
  • far from the intended target
    • "the arrow went wide of the mark"
  • to or over a great extent or range; far
    • "wandered wide through many lands"
    • "he traveled widely"

Adj

  • Having a large physical extent from side to side.
  • Large in scope.
  • Overweight, obese.
  • Operating at the side of the playing area.
  • On one side or the other of the mark; too far sideways from the mark, the wicket, the batsman, etc.
  • Made, as a vowel, with a less tense, and more open and relaxed, condition of the organs in the mouth.
  • Vast, great in extent, extensive.
  • Located some distance away; distant, far.
  • Far from truth, propriety, necessity, etc.
  • Of or supporting a greater range of text characters than can fit into the traditional 8-bit representation.
  • Sharp-witted.

Adv

  • extensively
  • completely
  • away from or to one side of a given goal
  • So as to leave or have a great space between the sides; so as to form a large opening.

Noun

  • 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

Origin / Etymology

PIE word
*dwóh₁
From Middle English wid, wyd, from Old English wīd (“wide, vast, broad, long; distant, far”), from Proto-Germanic *wīdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weydʰh₁- (“to separate, divide”), a dissimilated univerbation from *dwi- (“apart, asunder, in two”) + *dʰeh₁- (“to do, put, place”).
Cognate with Scots wyd, wid (“of great extent; vast”), West Frisian wiid (“broad; wide”), Dutch wijd (“wide; large; broad”), German weit (“far; wide; broad”), Danish vid (“wide”), Swedish vid (“wide”), Icelandic víður (“wide”), Latin dīvidō (“separate, sunder”), Latin vītō (“avoid, shun”). Related to widow.

Synonyms

across-the-board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, astray, blanket, broad, encompassing, extensive, full, panoptic, spacious, thick, wide, wide of the mark, wide-cut, wide-eyed, widely

Antonyms

long, narrow, scrawny, skinny, thin

Scrabble Score: 8

wide is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
wide is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
wide is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 8

wide is a valid Words With Friends word