broad

Adjective

• showing or characterized by broad-mindedness
  • a broad political stance
    
  • generous and broad sympathies
    
  • a liberal newspaper
    
  • tolerant of his opponent's opinions
    

• (of speech) heavily and noticeably regional
  • a broad southern accent
    

• very large in expanse or scope
  • a broad lawn
    
  • the wide plains
    
  • a spacious view
    
  • spacious skies
    

• being at a peak or culminating point
  • broad daylight
    
  • full summer
    

• lacking subtlety; obvious
  • gave us a broad hint that it was time to leave
    

• not detailed or specific
  • a broad rule
    
  • the broad outlines of the plan
    
  • felt an unspecific dread
    

• 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
    

• 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
    

Noun

• slang term for a woman
  • a broad is a woman who can throw a mean punch
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  large-minded , liberal , tolerant , spacious , wide , broad(a) , full(a) , unsubtle , unspecific