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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
expansive
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
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▪ In reality, the role of the project team and its contribution has been much more expansive.
▪ Golden Corral has slightly better steaks and a more expansive selection of food.
▪ The people are more expansive in their complaining, but their words merely combine elements by now all too familiar.
■ NOUN
gesture
▪ Theirs was not a relationship of expansive gestures like that.
mood
▪ He was in an expansive mood, and enjoyed chatting to the sales assistants.
▪ As noted, the frontier and the West had their own expansive mood.
▪ Mr. Salmond Given that the Minister is in such expansive mood I will press him on the matter of training.
▪ Why not go along with Luke's expansive mood for just so long as it took to finish her drink?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ an expansive selection of food
▪ an expansive view of the beach
▪ Our visitors became more expansive after a few beers.
▪ The new office building represents the company's expansive ambitions.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Expansion in output was fuelled by growing external demand and generally expansive domestic economic policies.
▪ He was in an expansive mood, and enjoyed chatting to the sales assistants.
▪ In such situations, hopes for a less active, more cautious and realistic, less expansive foreign policy were slim.
▪ Now their romantic urgings and formal ambitions have come together in an expansive exploration of the universe.
▪ The 1960s were expansive, golden years for the television networks.
▪ The house was only single-storey, but expansive in the Moorish style, with serial white arches and terracotta tiles.
▪ The integration of state and society favoured a benevolent and expansive concept of the role of the state.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
expansive

euphoric \euphoric\ adj. strongly experiencing a feeling of well-being; feeling euphoria. Opposite of dysphoric. [Narrower terms: expansive]

Syn: elated, happy.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
expansive

1650s, "tending to expand," from Latin expans-, past participle stem of expandere "to spread out" (see expand) + -ive. Meaning "embracing a large number of particulars, comprehensive" is by 1813. Related: Expansively; expansiveness.

Wiktionary
expansive

a. 1 Able to be expanded. 2 comprehensive in scope or extent. 3 talkative and sociable. 4 (context mathematics English) Exhibiting expansivity.

WordNet
expansive
  1. adj. 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]

Wikipedia
Expansive

In mathematics, the notion of expansivity formalizes the notion of points moving away from one another under the action of an iterated function. The idea of expansivity is fairly rigid, as the definition of positive expansivity, below, as well as the Schwarz-Ahlfors-Pick theorem demonstrate.

Usage examples of "expansive".

Although a successor Sunni general almost certainly would not be as willing as Saddam to take risks, interpret reality to suit his needs, and pursue an expansive foreign policy based on aggression, it would still be tough to accept what would look like a Saddam clone.

It was the first time that this had ever happened, for Madame Aubain was not of an expansive nature.

Indeed when under the expansive influence of a sufficient quantity of malt extract or ancient brandy from the cellaret on his library desk he had sometimes been heard to enunciate the theory that there was very little difference between the people in jail and those who were not.

The expansive beings which are thus created, monsters of universality, form doubles along vertical or horizontal axes, where the break, a sign of their essential dichotomy, is always signified.

Then, should you ever feel vexed or disheartened by the irritations and failures you meet in your journey through the evanescent masquerade of this world, pause and say to yourself, Is it worthy of me, while the entire realm of existence asks me to appropriate it in ever expansive possession, to be angry or sad because some infinitesimal speck of it does not grant me as much of itself as I crave?

I am not a believer in geomancy, or that geographical places have spirits of their own, but I do believe that certain vistas can provide an expansive pattern of reality that resonates with prior memory patterns.

Constitution is extremely attentive to the self-reflective moment, the life and exercise of the Constitution are instead, throughout their jurisprudential and political history, decidedly open to expansive movements, to the renewed declaration of the democratic foundation of power.

As befitted his status as chieftain of the Red Axes, Kesk Turnskull lived with a certain style, in an expansive, albeit decaying, house on the river.

Lucy and Gregory immediately moved forward to peer inside, but the orangery was dark, the only light the moon, shining through the expansive windows.

The young men were especially pinched as to their expansive chests, the broadcloth coming much too short at this point, and shrugging up oddly enough at the shoulders, while the phenomenally slick arrangement of their hair was calculated to produce a depressing effect on the mind of the observer.

She let the other apprentice guide them out of the canals, past the riberry grove and across the expansive guildhall courtyard.

The room itself, an expansive arrangement of tiered, skylit ceilings and windowed exterior walls, would easily hold a thousand.

Grudgingly at first, then more willingly as she artfully drew him into a more expansive discussion, Macro talked to her in a way he had never before with a woman.

Since his accident at the margins of the pentacle, the young Egyptian boy had been facing her, chest and chin thrust out, hands sweeping this way and that to illustrate his expansive statements and occasionally return his loincloth to position.

He made an expansive gesture that completed the sentence and promised all that the most exacting might demand of a reciprocatory nature.