wide
adjective
having considerable or great extent from side to side; broad.
overwide
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a word derived from
wide.
Example Sentences
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There was still a beaten way between the tree-boles, though not overwide, albeit, a highway, since it pierced the wood.
From The Well at the World's End: a tale by William Morris
"You related to Adam J. Patch?" he inquired of Anthony, emitting two slender strings of smoke from nostrils overwide.
From The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald
The way in is not overwide; would they see it from below?
From The Everlasting Whisper by Jackson Gregory
Here there were four berths, which in the daytime occupied but little room, but at night could be pulled out to make comfortable if not overwide couches.
From Four Afloat Being the Adventures of the Big Four on the Water by Ralph Henry Barbour
Our conclusions will thus be coextensive with our knowledge, rather than with our wishes, incomplete and overwide rather than illogical.
From History of English Humour, Vol. 2 by Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange
