Adjective

(head)

(broad)

Adjective

(er)

Wide in extent or scope.

three feet broad

the broad expanse of ocean

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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2 , passage=Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.}}

* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=April 19, author=Josh Halliday, work=the Guardian

, title= Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised? , passage=Julia Farrington, head of arts at Index on Censorship, argues that extra powers to ban violent videos online will "end up too broad and open to misapplication, which would damage freedom of expression".}}

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)

, volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Our banks are out of control , passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […].  Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […]  But the scandals kept coming, and so we entered stage three – what therapists call "bargaining". A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul. Instead it offers fixes and patches.}}

Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full.

* Bishop Porteus

broad and open day

Having a large measure of any thing or quality; not limited; not restrained.

* John Locke

a broad mixture of falsehood

Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged.

* D. Daggett

The words in the Constitution are broad enough to include the case.

* E. Everett

in a broad , statesmanlike, and masterly way

Plain; evident.

a broad hint

Free; unrestrained; unconfined.

* Shakespeare

as broad and general as the casing air

(dated) Gross; coarse; indelicate.

a broad''' compliment; a '''broad''' joke; '''broad humour

(of an accent) Strongly regional.

(Gaelic languages) Velarized, i.e. not palatalized.

Adjective

(head)

(wide)

Adjective

(er)

Having a large physical extent from side to side.

Large in scope.

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Fenella Saunders

, title= Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail.}}

(sports) 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.

* Spenser

Surely he shoots wide on the bow hand.

* Massinger

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.

Remote; distant; far.

* Hammond

the contrary being so wide from the truth of Scripture and the attributes of God

(obsolete) Far from truth, propriety, necessity, etc.

* Milton

our wide expositors

* Latimer

It is far wide that the people have such judgments.

* Herbert

How wide is all this long pretence!

(computing) Of or supporting a greater range of text characters than can fit into the traditional representation.

a wide''' character; a '''wide stream