Dictionary Entry
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
- 1superlative
Wide; extend in breadth, or from side to side; -- opposed to narrow; as, a broad street, a broad table; an inch broad.
- 2superlative
Extending far and wide; extensive; vast; as, the broad expanse of ocean.
- 3superlative
Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full.
- 4superlative
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.
- 5superlative
Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged.
- 6superlative
Plain; evident; as, a broad hint.
- 7superlative
Free; unrestrained; unconfined.
- 8superlative
Characterized by breadth. See Breadth.
- 9superlative
Cross; coarse; indelicate; as, a broad compliment; a broad joke; broad humor.
- 10superlative
Strongly marked; as, a broad Scotch accent.
- 11noun
The broad part of anything; as, the broad of an oar.
- 12noun
The spread of a river into a sheet of water; a flooded fen.
- 13noun
A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders.
- 14noun
slang term for a woman
"a broad is a woman who can throw a mean punch"
- 15adjective
showing or characterized by broad-mindedness
"a broad political stance"
"generous and broad sympathies"
- 16adjective
lacking subtlety; obvious
"gave us a broad hint that it was time to leave"
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- 17adjective
broad in scope or content- T.G.Winner
"across-the-board pay increases"
"an all-embracing definition"
- 18adjective
not detailed or specific
"a broad rule"
"the broad outlines of the plan"
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- 19adjective
being at a peak or culminating point
"broad daylight"
"full summer"
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- 20adjective
(of speech) heavily and noticeably regional
"a broad southern accent"
- 21adjective
very large in expanse or scope
"a broad lawn"
"the wide plains"
- 22adjective
having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other
"wide roads"
"a wide necktie"
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