Extensive \Ex*ten"sive\, a. [L. extensivus: cf. F. extensif. See
Extend.]
1. Having wide extent; of much superficial extent; expanded;
large; broad; wide; comprehensive; as, an extensive farm;
an extensive lake; an extensive sphere of operations;
extensive benevolence; extensive greatness.
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2. Capable of being extended. [Obs.]
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Silver beaters choose the finest coin, as that which
is most extensive under the hammer. --Boyle.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
extensive
adj 1: large in spatial extent or range; "an extensive Roman
settlement in northwest England"; "extended farm
lands" [syn: extended]
2: having broad range or effect; "had extensive press
coverage"; "far-reaching changes in the social structure";
"sweeping reforms" [syn: far-reaching, sweeping]
3: large in number or quantity (especially of discourse); "she
took copious notes"; "extensive press coverage"; "a
subject of voluminous legislation" [syn: copious, voluminous]
4: great in range or scope; "an extended vocabulary"; "surgeons
with extended experience"; "extensive examples of picture
writing"; "suffered extensive damage"; "a wide selection"
[syn: extended, wide]
5: of agriculture; increasing productivity by using large areas
with minimal outlay and labor; "producing wheat under
extensive conditions"; "agriculture of the extensive type"
[ant: intensive]
WordNet (r) 2.0
107 Moby Thesaurus words for "extensive":
Gargantuan, a mile long, all-embracing, ample, amplitudinous,
astronomical, awesome, big, boundless, broad, bulky, capacious,
catholic, colossal, commodious, comprehensive, considerable,
copious, cosmic, cosmopolitan, deep, diffuse, dilatant, distensive,
elastic, enormous, expansible, expansile, expansional, expansive,
extended, extending, extensile, extensional, far-embracing,
far-extending, far-flung, far-flying, far-going, far-ranging,
far-reaching, fargoing, full, galactic, general, generous,
gigantic, global, great, huge, immeasurable, immense, inclusive,
indiscriminate, infinite, inflatable, inflationary, interminable,
international, king-size, large, large-scale, lengthy, liberal,
long, longish, longsome, mammoth, massive, massy, monster,
monstrous, monumental, mountainous, national, no end of, outsize,
overgrown, prodigious, roomy, scopic, sesquipedal, sesquipedalian,
sizable, sizeable, spacious, spreading, stupendous, substantial,
sweeping, tall, titanic, tremendous, universal, vast, voluminous,
weighty, wholesale, wide, wide-extended, wide-extending,
wide-ranging, wide-reaching, wide-stretching, widespread,
without end, worldwide
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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