II. WORDS RELATING TO SPACE

II. DIMENSIONS

2. LINEAR DIMENSIONS

Breadth, thickness.

[Antonyms: narrowness.]

[Nouns] breadth, width, latitude, amplitude; diameter, bore, caliber, radius; superficial extent (space) [more].

thickness, crassitude; corpulence (size) [more]; dilation (expansion) [more].

[Verbs] be broad; become broad, render broad; expand [more]; thicken, widen, calibrate.

[Adjectives] broad, wide, ample, extended; discous; fanlike; outspread, outstretched; "wide as a church-door" [Romeo and Juliet]; latifoliate, latifolous.

thick, dumpy, squab, squat, thickset; thick as a rope.