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)

1. 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.

2. Having no laws or law enforcement

   It was a wide open frontier town before the railroad came.

3. unsettled or unresolved

   The fate of the loan sailor is still wide open.

4. vulnerable or unprotected

   He left himself wide open to criticism.

5. (sports) without the presence of opponents nearby

   He was wide open and scored easily after receiving the pass.

6. (finance) of the situation at the beginning of trading when there is a large spread between bid and ask prices

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