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Definition of broad : 1. A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders.
2. Characterized by breadth. See Breadth.
3. Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged.
4. Cross; coarse; indelicate; as, a broad compliment; a broad joke; broad humor.
5. Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full.
6. Extending far and wide; extensive; vast; as, the broad expanse of ocean.
7. Fig.: Having a large measure of any thing or quality; not limited; not restrained; - applied to any subject, and retaining the literal idea more or less clearly, the precise meaning depending largely on the substantive.
8. Free; unrestrained; unconfined.
9. Plain; evident; as, a broad hint.
10. Strongly marked; as, a broad Scotch accent.
11. The broad part of anything; as, the broad of an oar.
12. The spread of a river into a sheet of water; a flooded fen.
13. Wide; extend in breadth, or from side to side; - opposed to narrow; as, a broad street, a broad table; an inch broad.

Synonyms:

ample, bounteous, huge, bountiful, broad-minded, considerable, freehanded, full, all-embracing, unspecific, apparent, cultured, general, kind, all-encompassing, see, large-minded, foul, extended, scurrilous, scatologic, progressive, suggestive, all-inclusive, liberal, global, wide of the mark, bawdy, sweeping, tolerant, dirty, wide-cut, ribald, unmistakable, immense, wide-reaching, off-color, unbiased, capacious, overall, openhanded, enormous, nasty, experienced, outspread, spacious, all-round, handsome, obvious, colossal, encompassing, comprehensive, across-the-board, cultivated, widespread, all-around, far-ranging, commodious, patient of, unequivocal, filthy, bighearted, resistant, smutty, open-minded, broad-spectrum, clear, explicit, ubiquitous, inclusive, cosmopolitan, raunchy, lewd, gigantic, abundant, slender, giving, patent, grand, attitude, thin, narrow, Fescennine, scatological, far-reaching, blanket, wide-ranging, decent, free, loose, deep, far-flung, wide-eyed, roomy, massive, vast, panoptic, specific, unsubtle

naive, sincere, frank, undeceptive, honest, overt, callow, trusting, downright, unsophisticated, artless, outgoing, candid, direct, undisguised, unbeguiling, natural, unrestrained, plain-spoken, unaffected, open, unartful, plain, blunt, ingenuous, genuine, uncalculating, undeceitful, un-artificial, straightforward, undeceiving

thick

garish, degraded, scandalous, profane, chintzy, depraved, obscene, glaring, crass, earthy, barnyard, salty, homespun, unpolished, tactless, sordid, revolting, low, idiomatic, animal, outlandish, common, sleazy, unbecoming, base, rank, boorish, ignominious, undignified, rude, colloquial, repulsive, raw, crude, graceless, tasteless, coarse-grained, inelegant, ill-bred, tawdry, unrefined, barbaric, brazen, shameless, gross, coarse, unseemly, indelicate, in bad taste, clumsy, cockney, rough, philistine, cheap, offensive, vulgar, ignoble, gaudy, brutish

expansive, corpulent, portly, magnificent, long, big, great, amplitudinous, dimensional, extensive, voluminous, large, high, bulky, wide, measurable, sizable, chunky

Usage examples:

• He looked at John Broad. - "In the Days of Drake", J. S. Fletcher.
• It was then broad daylight. - "The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel", Baroness Orczy.
• His office is- or used to be on Broad Street. - "Cap'n Warren's Wards", Joseph C. Lincoln.