broad

broad is a 5-letter English word with 22 senses as noun and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Wide; extend in breadth, or from side to side; -- opposed to narrow; as, a broad street, a broad table; an inch broad. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 9 · 22 senses

Definitions

1. superlative. Wide; extend in breadth, or from side to side; -- opposed to narrow; as, a broad street, a broad table; an inch broad.
2. superlative. Extending far and wide; extensive; vast; as, the broad expanse of ocean.
3. superlative. Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full.
4. superlative. Fig.: Having a large measure of any thing or quality; not limited; not restrained; -- applied to any subject, and retaining the literal idea more or less clearly, the precise meaning depending largely on the substantive.
5. superlative. Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged.
6. superlative. Plain; evident; as, a broad hint.
7. superlative. Free; unrestrained; unconfined.
8. superlative. Characterized by breadth. See Breadth.
9. superlative. Cross; coarse; indelicate; as, a broad compliment; a broad joke; broad humor.
10. superlative. Strongly marked; as, a broad Scotch accent.
11. noun. The broad part of anything; as, the broad of an oar.
12. noun. The spread of a river into a sheet of water; a flooded fen.
13. noun. A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders.
14. noun. slang term for a woman

    "a broad is a woman who can throw a mean punch"

15. adjective. showing or characterized by broad-mindedness

    "a broad political stance"

    "generous and broad sympathies"

    Synonyms: liberal, tolerant

16. adjective. lacking subtlety; obvious

    "gave us a broad hint that it was time to leave"

    Synonyms: unsubtle

17. adjective. broad in scope or content- T.G.Winner

    "across-the-board pay increases"

    "an all-embracing definition"

    Synonyms: blanket, encompassing, extensive, panoptic, wide

18. adjective. not detailed or specific

    "a broad rule"

    "the broad outlines of the plan"

    Synonyms: unspecific

19. adjective. being at a peak or culminating point

    "broad daylight"

    "full summer"

    Synonyms: full

20. adjective. (of speech) heavily and noticeably regional

    "a broad southern accent"

21. adjective. very large in expanse or scope

    "a broad lawn"

    "the wide plains"

    Synonyms: spacious, wide

22. adjective. having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other

    "wide roads"

    "a wide necktie"

    Synonyms: wide

Synonyms

liberal, tolerant, unsubtle, blanket, encompassing, extensive, panoptic, wide, unspecific, full, spacious

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in broad:

abord, bardo, board, dobra, dorab

Common word forms

broads, broaden, broader, broadly, broadest, broadness

Words from these letters

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