Word Type

Adjective

Adjective

Adverb

Adverb

Noun

The word "wide" can be used as adjective, adjective, adverb, adverb and noun.

Word Relationships

Opposites (Antonyms)

narrow narrow skinny thin

Derived Terms

a mile wide and an inch deep all wool and a yard wide blow wide open by a wide margin cast one's net far and wide cast one's net wide cut a wide swath cut a wide swathe en far and wide go wide have someone's nose wide open into the wide blue yonder midwide open wide paint with a wide brush spread one's net wide to the wide whole wide world wide area network wide awake wide berth wide boy wide column store wide game wide of the mark wide open wide place in the road wide receiver wide shot wide shut wide spot in the road wide stance wide-angle wide-angle converter wide-angle lens wide-area network wide-awake wide-awake hat wide-bodied wide-body wide-cut wide-eyed wide-field wide-flung wide-gab wide-handed wide-handedness wide-on wide-ranging wide-ranging wide-reaching wide-scale wide-spread wide-wasting widely widen wideness widescale widescreen widespread

Derived From

widen

Distinct From

narrow

Etymologically Related To

widow

Context

computing cricket northern england now rare phonetics scotland sports

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

large

Narrower Terms (Hyponyms)

Africa-wide America-wide Asia-wide EU-wide Europe-wide US-wide dumpy kilometer-wide km-wide m-wide meter-wide nationwide regionwide sitewide space-wide squat stocky systemwide worldwide

Related Terms

width

Related Terms

8 bit adjective arm away ball batsman batting broad character completely comprehensive deem dimension extensive extensively extra far long representation run side sideways sideways tall signal tall text thick umpire unplayable vast width

Similar Terms

ample beamy beamy big bird's eye bird's-eye broad brimmed broad-brimmed comfortable comfortable comprehensive deep deep fanlike fanlike inaccurate large open opened panoramic sweeping sweeping thick wide screen wide-screen

Synonym Network

across board astray spacious wide cut wide eyed wide of mark widely

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.