Hyphenation of expansive

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word expansive? This word can be hyphenated and contains 3 syllables as shown below.

ex-pan-sive

Definitions of expansive:

1.	Able or tending to expand or characterized by expansion Expansive materials The expansive force of fire
2.	Of behavior that is impressive and ambitious in scale or scope An expansive lifestyle In the grand manner Collecting on a grand scale Heroic undertakings
3.	Marked by exaggerated feelings of euphoria and delusions of grandeur
4.	Friendly and open and willing to talk Wine made the guest expansive

Synonyms of expansive:

adj	expansive, distensible, erectile, cavernous, expandable, expandible, expansible, inflatable
adj	grand, impressive
adj	euphoric, happy
adj	talkative, communicative, communicatory

Last hyphenations of this language

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.