How to use wide in a sentence Wide is sometimes more applicable to that which is to be passed through Wide adjective (amount) b1 used to describe something that includes a large amount or many different types of thing, or that covers a large range or area:
Of great extent from side to side
Having a specified extent from side to side
Of great range or scope A person of wide experience. See more adjective very large in expanse or scope “the wide plains” synonyms Broad, spacious big, large above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent
Having great extent or range Wide (comparative wider or more wide, superlative widest or most wide) having a large physical extent from side to side Wide and broad may be synonymous, but broad is generally the larger and more emphatic A wide river is not thought of as so far across as a broad river
