Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
increased in extent or size or bulk or scope;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
expanded \expanded\ adj.
increased in extent or size or bulk or scope. Opposite of
contracted. [Narrower terms: blown-up, enlarged;
dilated; distended, swollen; inflated]
[WordNet 1.5]
2. (Printnig) wider than usual for a particular height; -- of
printers' type. Contrasted with condensed.
Syn: extended.
[WordNet 1.5]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Expand \Ex*pand"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Expanded; p. pr. & vb.
n. Expanding.] [L. expandere, expansum; ex out + pandere to
spread out, to throw open; perh. akin to E. patent. Cf.
Spawn.]
1. To lay open by extending; to open wide; to spread out; to
diffuse; as, a flower expands its leaves.
[1913 Webster]
Then with expanded wings he steers his flight.
--Milton.
[1913 Webster]
2. To cause the particles or parts of to spread themselves or
stand apart, thus increasing bulk without addition of
substance; to make to occupy more space; to dilate; to
distend; to extend every way; to enlarge; -- opposed to
contract; as, to expand the chest; heat expands all
bodies; to expand the sphere of benevolence.
[1913 Webster]
3. (Math.) To state in enlarged form; to develop; as, to
expand an equation. See Expansion, 5.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
expanded
adj 1: increased in extent or size or bulk or scope [ant:
contracted]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
34 Moby Thesaurus words for "expanded":
accelerated, aggrandized, ampliate, amplified, augmented,
beefed-up, bloated, boosted, broadened, built-up, crescendoed,
deepened, elevated, enhanced, enlarged, extended, heightened,
hiked, increased, inflated, intensified, jazzed up, magnified,
multiplied, proliferated, raised, reinforced, spread, stiffened,
strengthened, swollen, tightened, upped, widened