Associations to the word «Expansive»

Wiktionary

EXPANSIVE, adjective. Able to be expanded.
EXPANSIVE, adjective. Comprehensive in scope or extent.
EXPANSIVE, adjective. Talkative and sociable.
EXPANSIVE, adjective. (mathematics) Exhibiting expansivity.

Dictionary definition

EXPANSIVE, adjective. Able or tending to expand or characterized by expansion; "Expansive materials"; "the expansive force of fire".
EXPANSIVE, adjective. Of behavior that is impressive and ambitious in scale or scope; "an expansive lifestyle"; "in the grand manner"; "collecting on a grand scale"; "heroic undertakings".
EXPANSIVE, adjective. Marked by exaggerated feelings of euphoria and delusions of grandeur.
EXPANSIVE, adjective. Friendly and open and willing to talk; "wine made the guest expansive".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope