OPEN-ENDED Synonyms

• including all or everything

• an intensive examination testing a student's proficiency in some special field of knowledge

• broad in scope

• tiresomely long; seemingly without end

• infinitely great in number

• having no known beginning and presumably no end

• having the ends united so as to form a continuous whole

• able or tending to expand or characterized by expansion

• of behavior that is impressive and ambitious in scale or scope

• marked by exaggerated feelings of euphoria and delusions of grandeur

• friendly and open and willing to talk

• fully extended or stretched forth

• relatively long in duration; tediously protracted

• drawn out or made longer spatially

• beyond the literal or primary sense

• large in spatial extent or range or scope or quantity

• capable of being changed

• able to flex; able to bend easily

• making or willing to make concessions

• able to adjust readily to different conditions

• bending and snapping back readily without breaking

• not limited or hampered; not under compulsion or restraint

• unconstrained or not chemically bound in a molecule or not fixed and capable of relatively unrestricted motion

• not held in servitude

• people who are free

• without restraint

• costing nothing

• not occupied or in use

• not fixed in position

• not taken up by scheduled activities

• completely wanting or lacking

• not literal

• grant freedom to; free from confinement

• relieve from

• remove or force out from a position

• grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to

• make (information) available for publication

• free from obligations or duties

• free or remove obstruction from

• let off the hook

• part with a possession or right

• release (gas or energy) as a result of a chemical reaction or physical decomposition

• make (assets) available

• including much or everything; and especially including stated limits

• vague or not clearly defined or stated

• not decided or not known

• having no limits or boundaries in time or space or extent or magnitude

• (of verbs) not having tense, person, or number (as a participle or gerund or infinitive)

• the unlimited expanse in which everything is located

• too numerous to be counted

• total and all-embracing

• seemingly boundless in amount, number, degree, or especially extent

• used especially of front teeth

• having no limits in range or scope

• without reservation or exception

• that cannot be entirely consumed or used up

• not subject to or subjected to restriction

• free of restrictions on conduct

• not restricted or exclusive

• not restricted or modified in meaning

• never having had security classification

• having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other

• great in degree

• with or by a broad space

• to the fullest extent possible

• far from the intended target

• to or over a great extent or range; far

• broad in scope or content

• (used of eyes) fully open or extended

• very large in expanse or scope

• having ample fabric

• not on target