Expansive

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  euphoric \euphoric\ adj.
     strongly experiencing a feeling of well-being; feeling
     euphoria. Opposite of {dysphoric}. [Narrower terms:
     {expansive}]
  
     Syn: elated, happy.


          [WordNet 1.5]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Expansive \Ex*pan"sive\ ([e^]ks*p[a^]n"s[i^]v), a. [Cf. F.
     expansif.]
     1. Having a capacity or tendency to expand or dilate;
        diffusive; of much expanse; wide-extending; as, the
        expansive force of heat; the expansive quality of air.
        [WordNet sense 1]
        [1913 Webster]
  
              A more expansive and generous compassion. --Eustace.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              His forehead was broad and expansive. --Prescott.
  
     2. causing expansion; as, the expansive force of heat.
        [1913 Webster +PJC]
  
     3. of much expanse; wide-extending; as, an expansive view of
        the mountains.
        [PJC]
  
     4. friendly, open, and unrestrained in conversation or
        discourse; -- of people; as, wine made the guest
        expansive. [WordNet sense 4]
  
     Syn: effusive, talkative.
          [WordNet 1.5]
  
     5. characterized by exaggerated feelings of euphoria and
        delusions of grandeur. [WordNet sense 3]
        [WordNet 1.5] -- {Ex*pan"sive*ly}, adv.
        -{Ex*pan"sive*ness}, n.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  expansive
       adj 1: able or tending to expand or characterized by expansion;
              "Expansive materials"; "the expansive force of fire"
              [ant: {unexpansive}]
       2: impressive in scale; "an expansive lifestyle"; "in the grand
          manner" [syn: {grand}]
       3: marked by exaggerated feelings of euphoria and delusions of
          grandeur
       4: friendly and open and willing to talk; "wine made the guest
          expansive" [syn: {talkative}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  116 Moby Thesaurus words for "expansive":
     accessible, affable, airy, all jaw, all-embracing, all-inclusive,
     amiable, ample, amplitudinous, approachable, big, bouncy, broad,
     buoyant, candid, capacious, chatty, commodious, communicable,
     communicative, comprehensive, conversable, conversational, copious,
     deep, demonstrative, dilatable, dilatant, distensive, easy,
     effervescent, effusive, elastic, enlarging, expandable, expanding,
     expansible, expansile, expansional, extendable, extended,
     extending, extensible, extensile, extensional, extensive,
     extroverted, far-reaching, flip, fluent, frank, free,
     free-speaking, free-spoken, free-tongued, friendly, full, gabby,
     garrulous, gassy, generous, genial, glib, gossipy, great,
     gregarious, gushy, infinite, inflatable, inflationary, large,
     lavish, liberal, long-winded, loquacious, multiloquent,
     multiloquious, newsy, open, openhanded, outgoing, outspoken,
     overtalkative, prolix, resilient, roomy, scopic, self-revealing,
     self-revelatory, smooth, sociable, spacious, spreading, talkative,
     talky, unconstrained, unhampered, unrepressed, unreserved,
     unrestrained, unrestricted, unreticent, unsecretive, unshrinking,
     unsilent, unsuppressed, vast, verbose, volatile, voluble,
     voluminous, warm, wide, wide-ranging, widespread, windy