expansively
adverb
uk/ɪkˈspæn.sɪv.li/us/ɪkˈspæn.sɪv.li/expansivelyadverb(FRIENDLY)
If youtalkexpansively, youhappilytalktopeoplein afriendlyway:
友善健谈地；豪爽地；开朗地Hetalksexpansively about hiswork.他热情地谈论他的工作。
Ourhostgreetedus expansively.主人热情地迎接了我们。
- Thedirectorthankedeveryone expansively fortheirhardworkon the show.
- Shetalksexpansively about thebeautyandwonderof herdeserthome.
- He has theknackoftalkingexpansively withoutactuallygiving much away.
Ways of talking
- babble
- beg the questionidiom
- blah
- blether
- blither
- coo
- declaim
- declamatory
- drone on
- gabble
- loose
- mumble
- pipe
- quaver
- ramble
- rattle on/away
- talk trashidiom
- throwyourvoiceidiom
- trill
- yak
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Elaborating, specifying and simplifying
expansivelyadverb(LARGE)
in a way thatcoversalargearea:
Shegesturedexpansively towards astandofolivetrees.
Heraisedhisarmsexpansively.
- Theaveragenewhomehasgrownexpansively in the last 30years.
- Thetourwas given by theoverseerof one of the state's most expansivelystockedwinecellars.
- Thedancerslovetomove, and do so expansively.
Big and quite big
- appreciable
- baronial
- bulky
- burly
- expansive
- hearty
- hefty
- higher
- hulking
- juicy
- mass
- rambling
- roomy
- royal
- savage
- sizable
- sizeable
- spacious
- the bigger the betteridiom
- walk-in
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