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wider open

wider open is the comparative form of wide open.

Meaning of wide open

Adjective

wide open (comparative wider open or more wide open, superlative widest open or most wide open)

  1. Completely open.
    • The front door was wide open.
  2. (idiomatic) Having no laws or law enforcement.
    • It was a wide open frontier town before the railroad came.
  3. (idiomatic) Unsettled or unresolved.
    • The fate of the loan sailor is still wide open.
  4. (idiomatic) Vulnerable or unprotected.
    • He left himself wide open to criticism.
  5. Without the presence of opponents nearby.
    • He was wide open and scored easily after receiving the pass.
  6. Of the situation at the beginning of trading when there is a large spread between bids and asking prices.

Questions about wider open

What is wider open the comparative form of?
Wider open is the comparative form of wide open.

Words near wider open in the dictionary

  1. widens someone's horizons
  2. widens up
  3. wideout
  4. wideouts
  5. wider
  6. wider open
  7. wider-spread
  8. widereaching
  9. widershins
  10. widerspread
  11. wides

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wider open (page history and authors); wide open (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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