Need another word that means the same as “width”? Find 20 synonyms and 30 related words for “width” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Width” are: breadth, wideness, broadness, thickness, spread, span, diameter, girth, range, compass, scope, scale, sweep, extent, extensiveness, vastness, immensity, immenseness, expansiveness, comprehensiveness
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “width” as a noun can have the following definitions:
| breadth | Wide range or extent. The boat measured 27 feet in breadth. |
| broadness | The property of being wide; having great width. |
| compass | An instrument containing a magnetized pointer which shows the direction of magnetic north and bearings from it. Within the compass of education. |
| comprehensiveness | The capacity to understand a broad range of topics. The depth and comprehensiveness of his knowledge is simply breathtaking. |
| diameter | A straight line connecting the center of a circle with two points on its perimeter (or the center of a sphere with two points on its surface. |
| expansiveness | A friendly open trait of a talkative person. The expansiveness of their extravagant life style was soon curtailed. |
| extensiveness | Large or extensive in breadth or importance or comprehensiveness. The very extensiveness of his power was a temptation to abuse it. |
| extent | The area covered by something. Decision making was to a large extent outside his control. |
| girth | The distance around a person’s body. An ivy clad tree of immense girth. |
| immenseness | Unusual largeness in size or extent or number. |
| immensity | The extremely large size, scale, or extent of something. I have no illusions about the immensity of this task. |
| range | A series of hills or mountains. Grand hotels were outside my price range. |
| scale | A white deposit formed in a kettle, boiler, etc. by the evaporation of water containing lime. The scale of the map. |
| scope | A telescope microscope or other device having a name ending in scope. Within the scope of an investigation. |
| span | The wingspan of an aircraft or a bird. The gannets had black tipped wings with a six foot span. |
| spread | The fact or process of spreading over an area. They put out quite a spread. |
| sweep | A sweepstake. The police finished their sweep through the woods. |
| thickness | A broad or deep part of a specified thing. He gave his eyes time to adjust to the thickness of the fog. |
| vastness | Unusual largeness in size or extent or number. The vastness of the Atlantic Ocean. |
| wideness | Unusual largeness in size or extent or number. |
| bottleneck | The style of playing that uses a bottleneck. Animated films are still stymied by a technological bottleneck. |
| breadth | A piece of cloth of standard or full width. The boat measured 27 feet in breadth. |
| constricted | Drawn together or squeezed physically or by extension psychologically. A constricted blood vessel. |
| cramped | (of handwriting) small and difficult to read. Cramped quarters. |
| dense | Hard to pass through because of dense growth. Dense as lead. |
| diaphanous | (especially of fabric) light, delicate, and translucent. A hat with a diaphanous veil. |
| elongated | Long in relation to width, especially unusually so. Picasso s elongated Don Quixote. |
| extent | The particular degree to which something is or is believed to be the case. The extent of the damage. |
| foyer | An entrance hall or other open area in a building used by the public, especially a hotel or theatre. The foyer of the concert hall. |
| gangling | Tall and thin and having long slender limbs. A gangling youth with a trace of down on his cheeks. |
| gangly | Tall and thin and having long slender limbs. |
| lissom | Moving and bending with ease. The kind of outfit that should be left to lissom teenagers. |
| membrane | A thin pliable sheet of material forming a barrier or lining. The mucous membrane. |
| narrow | Make or become more narrow or restricted. I cannot narrow down the rules for this game. |
| narrowed | Reduced in size as by squeezing together. Narrowed arteries impair blood circulation. |
| packed | Filled to capacity. Packed snow. |
| poky | Small and remote and insignificant. Passed a series of poky little one horse towns. |
| scope | A telescope microscope or other device having a name ending in scope. It is important that a project is scoped correctly to ensure the budget can be accurately defined. |
| size | Alter or sort in terms of size or according to size. Average size house. |
| skinny | A skinny person. I love jeans either bootcut or skinny. |
| slender | Being of delicate or slender build. People of slender means. |
| slice | Cut something especially food into slices. A slice of bread. |
| streamlined | Having been made simpler and more efficient or effective. Short streamlined meetings. |
| swath | A path or strip (as cut by one course of mowing. |
| taper | Gradually lessen. The strong taper of her back. |
| thick | Not thin of a specific thickness or of relatively great extent from one surface to the opposite usually in the smallest of the three solid dimensions. Thick fog. |
| thin | Relatively thin in consistency or low in density not viscous. Thin out the rows of peas. |
| underweight | Invest in (a market sector, industry, etc.) to a lesser than normal degree. We feared the hot air balloon had been underweighted. |
| wiry | Of hair that resembles wire in stiffness. Bernadette was a small wiry woman. |
| withered | (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture. Withered vines. |
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