wide-open

adjective

: having virtually no limits or restrictions
a wide-open town

Examples of wide-open in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web About 30 minutes south of Powder Mountain and an hour from Park City, 3,000-acre Snowbasin is the place for uncrowded, expansive terrain, wide-open bowls, and beautiful off-piste jaunts. Nina Kokotas Hahn, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Mar. 2024 LaKeith Stanfield pulled an even wilder version of this move, with a wide-open collared shirt underneath a Saint Laurent jumpsuit. Dave Schilling, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2024 Yoder buried a wide-open 3-pointer from the corner and then forward Jacob Foster was fouled while converting a layup to take a 38-28 lead with 5:11 left in regulation. Matt Schubert, The Denver Post, 8 Mar. 2024 Independent expenditure committees spent big in three wide-open Northern California races without incumbents. Lindsey Holden, Sacramento Bee, 6 Mar. 2024 Davis wanted to put wide-open space into his music the way Ravel did. James Kaplan, The Atlantic, 6 Mar. 2024 Jenna started tossing romaine hearts and papayas in Bibi's wide-open mouth. The Enquirer, 5 Mar. 2024 Meticulous but not rigid offense that got the ball pinging from one side to the other, players turning down merely-good looks for wide-open shots. Joseph Dycus, The Mercury News, 3 Mar. 2024 When the pandemic sent Americans fleeing big cities for the wide-open spaces, many opted to pursue their Covid-era lives in RVs. Jeffrey Steele, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

1858, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of wide-open was in 1858

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“Wide-open.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wide-open. Accessed 18 Mar. 2024.

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