American English pronunciation
How to pronounce widest
IPA transcription: ['waɪdəst]
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Adjective
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having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other
“wide roads”
“a wide necktie”
“wide margins”
“three feet wide”
“a river two miles broad”
“broad shoulders”
“a broad river”
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great in degree
“won by a wide margin”
Adjective
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broad in scope or content; ; ; ; ; - T.G.Winner
“across-the-board pay increases”
“an all-embracing definition”
“blanket sanctions against human-rights violators”
“an invention with broad applications”
“a panoptic study of Soviet nationality”
“granted him wide powers”
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(used of eyes) fully open or extended
“stared with wide eyes”
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very large in expanse or scope
“a broad lawn”
“the wide plains”
“a spacious view”
“spacious skies”
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having ample fabric
“the current taste for wide trousers”
“a full skirt”
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not on target
“the kick was wide”
“the arrow was wide of the mark”
“a claim that was wide of the truth”
Usage examples
- Edge-Sweets claims to offer the widest range of urethane process equipment in the world.
- The widest-range zooms often have fifteen or more.
- This was the largest and widest ranging lens selection in the world by far.
- Ossining borders the eastern shores of the widest part of the Hudson River.
- It is narrow, being only wide at its widest point.
- Poetry, in its widest sentiment, turn us into citizens of the world.
- Big Millstream Falls are reputedly the widest single-drop falls in Australia.
- The following ring is the widest.