wide open

English

Alternative forms

wide-open (attributive, before noun)

Adjective

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

completely open
The front door was wide open.
- 1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit
  It was a bright, sunny morning, and the windows stood wide open.
Having no laws or law enforcement
It was a wide open frontier town before the railroad came.
unsettled or unresolved
The fate of the loan sailor is still wide open.
vulnerable or unprotected
He left himself wide open to criticism.
(sports) without the presence of opponents nearby
He was wide open and scored easily after receiving the pass.
(finance) of the situation at the beginning of trading when there is a large spread between bid and ask prices

Translations

open completely

Catalan: de bat a bat (ca)
Finnish: apposen auki, ammollaan (fi)
French: grand ouvert (fr)
Greek: ορθάνοιχτος (el) (orthánoichtos)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: vidåpen

Polish: na oścież (pl)
Russian: настежь (ru) (nastežʹ)
Spanish: de par en par (es)
Swedish: vidöppen (sv)

lawless

Finnish: villi (fi)

unresolved

Finnish: avoinna

French: incertain (fr) m

vulnerable

Finnish: altis (fi)

spread between bid and ask

Anagrams

open wide

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