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widest open

widest open is the superlative 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 widest open

What is widest open the superlative form of?
Widest open is the superlative form of wide open.

Words near widest open in the dictionary

  1. widespread
  2. widespreaded
  3. widespreadly
  4. widespreadness
  5. widest
  6. widest open
  7. widest-spread
  8. widestspread
  9. WideUltra SCSI
  10. Widford
  11. widge

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Adapted from Wiktionary: widest 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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