Qualities
Synonyms for expansive
Synonyms for expansive: talkative and sprawling. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for expansive
Interchangeable with expansive in this sense
Audited under expansive's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one expansive carries in that sense.
- talkativeadjective, in the sense "friendly and open and willing to talk"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name expansive as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- sprawlingsprawling is an adjective in the sense "spreading out over a large area in an irregular, untidy way"
Two directions, one standard: one audited under expansive and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
friendly and open and willing to talk
Wine made the guest expansive.
The true synonym
talkative
Same sentence, swapped: Wine made the guest talkative.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for expansive in the sentence quoted.
- heroic
- buoyant
- copious
Where expansive turns up in the game
expansive is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where expansive is the trap
- elasticadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is flexible, in the sense "able to adjust readily to different conditions", and expansive is on the board beside it.
- buoyantadjective, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is floaty, in the sense "tending to float on a liquid or rise in air or gas", with expansive sitting one tile away.
Play expansive
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so expansive reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other qualities words at High Camp, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. expansive carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.