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Meaning of expansive

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  expansive
      adj 1: able or tending to expand or characterized by expansion;
             "Expansive materials"; "the expansive force of fire"
             [ant: {unexpansive}]
      2: 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" [syn:
         {expansive}, {grand}, {heroic}]
      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: {expansive}, {talkative}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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