breadth
breadth is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.(Fine Arts) The quality of having the colors and shadows broad and massive, and the arrangement of objects such as to avoid to great multiplicity of details, producing an impression of largeness and simple grandeur; -- called also breadth of effect. Breadth of coloring is a prominent character in the painting of all great masters. Weale.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- ample
- amplitude
- anatomy
- and
- angustation
- become
- bone
- bore
- broad
- caliber
- calibrate
- closeness
- coarctation
- constriction
- contraction
- corpulence
- crassitude
- deposition
- diameter
- dilation
- discous
- dumpy
- emaciation
- exiguity
- exility
- expand
- expansion
- extent
- fanlike
- filament
- ghat
- ghaut
- hourglass
- isthmus
- lantern
- latifoliate
- latitude
- line
- little
- macilency
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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