outflung
Arms spread wide
Outflung describes something thrown or extended outward, typically arms or limbs: He lay on the bed with arms outflung.
The word is literary, the past participle of the rarely used verb outfling.
It suggests an expansive, dramatic gesture—arms spread wide in welcome, exhaustion, or abandon.
Spread to full length
- extendedLengthened in time or space
- spreadTo distribute widely
- reachingExtending toward something
- thrownPropelled by arm
cast · sweeping · expansive · open · welcoming · embracing · dramatic · imploring
outstretched
Spread to full length
thrown · cast · sweeping · expansive · open · welcoming · embracing · dramatic · imploring · beseeching
faraway
At great distance
peripheral · outermost · extended · reaching · stretched · sprawling · spread · scattered · dispersed · thrown
strewn
Spread irregularly about
disseminated · sprinkled · dotted · peppered · spattered · tossed · cast · showered · diffused · distributed
- body positionslying down, flat, upright, standing, sitting
- centrifugal forcespin, rotation, centrifuge, g-force, outward