Definition of wider

"wider" in the adjective sense

1. wide, broad

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

"wide roads"

"a wide necktie"

"wide margins"

"three feet wide"

"a river two miles broad"

"broad shoulders"

"a broad river"

2. across-the-board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, blanket, broad, encompassing, extensive, panoptic, wide

broad in scope or content

"across-the-board pay increases"

"an all-embracing definition"

"blanket sanctions against human-rights violators"

"an invention with broad applications"

"a panoptic study of Soviet nationality"- T.G.Winner

"granted him wide powers"

3. wide-eyed, wide

used of eyes) fully open or extended

"stared with wide eyes"

4. broad, spacious, wide

very large in expanse or scope

"a broad lawn"

"the wide plains"

"a spacious view"

"spacious skies"

5. wide

great in degree

"won by a wide margin"

6. wide, wide-cut, full

having ample fabric

"the current taste for wide trousers"

"a full skirt"

7. wide, wide of the mark

not on target

"the kick was wide"

"the arrow was wide of the mark"

"a claim that was wide of the truth"

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Quotations for wider

And the whole world would henceforth be a wider prison unto me. [ Byron ]

The angels may have wider spheres of action, may have nobler forms of duty; but right with them and with us is one and the same thing. [ Chapin ]

The healthy know not of their health, but only the sick: this is the physician's aphorism, and applicable in a far wider sense than he gives it. [ Carlyle ]

Here's a good joke to do during an earthquake: straddle a big crack in the ground, and if it opened wider, go Whoa! Whoa! and flail your arms around, like you're going to fall in. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Man is intended for a limited condition; objects that are simple, near, determinate, he comprehends, and he becomes accustomed to employ such means as are at hand; but on entering a wider field he now knows neither what he would nor what he should. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Man gains wider dominion by his intellect than by his right arm. The mustard-seed of thought is a pregnant treasury of vast results. Like the germ in the Egyptian tombs, its vitality never perishes; and its fruit will spring up after it has been buried for long ages. [ Chapin ]

Heroes have gone out; quacks have come in; the reign of quacks has not ended with the nineteenth century. The sceptre is held with a firmer grasp; the empire has a wider boundary. We are all the slaves of quackery in one shape or another. Indeed, one portion of our being is always playing the successful quack to the other. [ Carlyle ]

We cannot describe the natural history of the soul, but we know that it is divine. All things are known to the soul. It is not to be surprised by any communication. Nothing can be greater than it. Let those fear and those fawn who will. The soul is in her native realm; and it is wider than space, older than time, wide as hope, rich as love. Pusillanimity and fear she refuses with a beautiful scorn; they are not for her who putteth on her coronation robes, and goes out through universal love to universal power. [ Emerson ]

wider in Scrabble®

The word wider is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters wider:

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wider in Words With Friends™

The word wider is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters wider:

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Words within the letters of wider

2 letter words in wider (3 words)

3 letter words in wider (7 words)

4 letter words in wider (7 words)

5 letter words in wider (Anagrams) (3 words)

wider + 1 blank (7 words)

Words containing the sequence wider

Words that start with wider (6 words)

Words with wider in them (1 word)

Words that end with wider (1 word)

Word Growth involving wider

Shorter words in wider

id ide wide

Longer words containing wider

wideranging

widereach widereached

widereach widereaches

widereach widereaching