expansively

1. 1.

   in an impressively expansive manner

   “she managed to live rather expansively on her modest income”
2. 2.

   in an ebullient manner

   “Khrushchev ebulliently promised to supply rockets for the protection of Cuba against American aggression”

   Synonymsebullientlyexuberantly

Questions about expansively

What does expansively mean?

expansively means "in an impressively expansive manner". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in expansively?

expansively has 5 syllables: ex-pan-si-ve-ly. The stress falls on "si".

What is another word for expansively?

Close synonyms include ebulliently, exuberantly. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is expansively a common word?

expansively is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.