Adjective: expansive ik'span-siv or ek'span-siv
- Able or tending to expand or characterized by expansion
"Expansive materials"; "the expansive force of fire"
- Of behaviour that is impressive and ambitious in scale or scope
"an expansive lifestyle";
- grand, heroic
- Friendly and open and willing to talk
"wine made the guest expansive";
- talkative
- (psychiatry) marked by exaggerated feelings of euphoria and delusions of grandeur
"In his expansive mood, he believed he could solve all the world's problems"
See also: blow-up, cavernous, communicative, communicatory, distensible, erectile, euphoric, expandable, expandible [non-standard], expansible, impressive, inflatable
Antonym: unexpansive
Encyclopedia: Expansive