Definitions

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  • adjective Moderately wide.

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  • adjective Somewhat wide.

Etymologies

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wide +‎ -ish

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Examples

  • I am wondering about using this in a team spread across a widish geographical range, and a wide range of technical expertise.

    Microsoft Sharepoint mr_snips 2006

  • The Forresters stood in front of the fire with Hilary, who wore a plum-coloured smoking suit and a widish tie.

    Tied Up in Tinsel Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1972

  • Anyhow, we have had a very pleasant insight into the home life of America, which differs in small ways a good deal from ours, and in character, habits, and everything there is a widish gulf between the two races.

    A Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba Cecil Hall

  • Passed a deep well of considerable diameter, which had an open communication with a widish and deep canal, the only place I have seen that would hold a good deal of water; it was cut throughout in shingle, and was perhaps fifty feet in its deepest part.

    Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith

  • The essence of the fantasia is to show off one's own prowess and one's horse's paces while careering madly in a widish circle round some given object -- an open carriage with some great one in it, or a bridal pair -- taking no note of obstacles, dashing over rocks and gulleys and down breakneck slopes, loading and firing off a gun at intervals, in full career.

    Oriental Encounters Palestine and Syria, 1894-6 Marmaduke William Pickthall 1905

  • She got down at the nearest corner, walked up a widish street of narrow grey houses till she came to number eighty-eight.

    Beyond John Galsworthy 1900

  • She got down at the nearest corner, walked up a widish street of narrow grey houses till she came to number eighty-eight.

    Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

  • Motiers is one of the half-dozen decent villages standing in the flat bottom of the Val de Travers, a widish valley that lies between the gorges of the Jura and the Lake of Neuchâtel, and is famous in our day for its production of absinthe and of asphalt.

    Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2) John Morley 1880

  • On our way to and fro we necessarily passed through the town, which, with its widish but not straightish chief street, I found as clean as Rome itself, and looking, after the long tumult of its history, beginning well back in fable, as peaceable as Montclair, New Jersey.

    Roman Holidays, and Others William Dean Howells 1878

  • He was now about thirty, had yellow hair, blue eyes, a smiling face, widish mouth, always a little open, nose a little turned up, whistled a good deal, and walked with a peculiar dance-like lilt.

    Miriam's Schooling and Other Papers Mark Rutherford 1872

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