wide open
Without any barrier
Wide open means fully open, without restriction or obstruction: The door stood wide open, eyes wide open.
It extends to situations lacking protection or control: a wide-open race has no clear favorite, a wide-open town tolerates vice and lawlessness.
In sports, a wide-open receiver has no defender nearby.
The case is still wide open means unresolved, with all possibilities remaining.
Wide open, agape
- yawningOpening mouth when tired
- agapeMouth held wide
- spreadTo distribute widely
- outstretchedSpread to full length
unobstructed · cavernous · spacious · airy · roomy · door · gate · window
Out in open
- unprotectedWithout safeguard or shield
- defenselessWithout means to resist
- unguardedWithout protection or caution
- unshieldedLacking protective barrier
susceptible · at-risk · blindside · gap · breach · weakness · flank · undefended
Apparent earth-sky meeting
- prairieOpen grassy flatland
- vistaPleasing distant scene
- panoramaUnobstructed wide-angle view
- landscapeVisible features of terrain
sky · plain · meadow · field · savannah · steppe · plateau · desert
Absence of constraint
- unlimitedWithout bounds or restrictions
- unboundedHaving no limits
- limitlessWithout any boundaries
- unconstrainedHaving no restrictions
unfettered · unhindered · permissive · free-range · unregulated · no-holds-barred · laissez-faire · deregulated
gaping
Wide open, agape
outstretched · unobstructed · cavernous · spacious · airy · roomy · door · gate · window · arms
exposed
Out in open
- unprotectedWithout safeguard or shield
- defenselessWithout means to resist
- unguardedWithout protection or caution
unshielded · susceptible · at-risk · blindside · gap · breach · weakness · flank · undefended · penetrable
horizon
Apparent earth-sky meeting
landscape · sky · plain · meadow · field · savannah · steppe · plateau · desert · outback
freedom
Absence of constraint
unconstrained · unfettered · unhindered · permissive · free-range · unregulated · no-holds-barred · laissez-faire · deregulated · autonomous
- photographycamera, photo, flash, lens, shooting
- maximum effortall-out, full throttle, go all out, go hard, all in
- opennesstransparent, transparency, accessible, accessibility, ajar
- vulnerabilityvulnerability, vulnerable, defenselessness, defenseless, helplessness
- f-stopsf-stop, f-number, f/8, f/11, f/22
- availabilityavailable, unavailable, sold out, in stock, out of stock
wide openenclosed
Surrounded and sealed within
confined · hemmed in · claustrophobic · cramped · walled in
wide opensewn up
Secured beyond doubt
foregone conclusion · decided · locked up · predetermined · wrapped up
open, wide, opening, width, widen, opened, opens, openness, widened