Top Broad Quotes

Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny. It's the only one. It's based on thousands of years of human experience. There is nothing narrow about the conservative philosophy. It's a liberating philosoph...

The biologically harmful effects of man-made environmental radiation was a jigsaw of existing information that needed to be assembled by a group of independent researchers that had a broad range of kn...

Broad Definition

(superl.) Wide; extend in breadth, or from side to side; -- opposed to narrow; as, a broad street, a broad table; an inch broad.

(superl.) Extending far and wide; extensive; vast; as, the broad expanse of ocean.

(superl.) Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full.

(superl.) Fig.: Having a large measure of any thing or quality; not limited; not restrained; -- applied to any subject, and retaining the literal idea more or less clearly, the precise meaning depending largely on the substantive.

(superl.) Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged.

(superl.) Plain; evident; as, a broad hint.

(superl.) Free; unrestrained; unconfined.

(superl.) Characterized by breadth. See Breadth.

(superl.) Cross; coarse; indelicate; as, a broad compliment; a broad joke; broad humor.

(superl.) Strongly marked; as, a broad Scotch accent.

(n.) The broad part of anything; as, the broad of an oar.

(n.) The spread of a river into a sheet of water; a flooded fen.

(n.) A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders.