'Extensive' definitions:
Definition of 'extensive'
From: WordNet
adjective
Large in spatial extent or range or scope or quantity; "an extensive Roman settlement in northwest England"; "extended farm lands"; "surgeons with extended experience"; "they suffered extensive damage" [syn: extensive, extended]
adjective
Broad in scope or content; "across-the-board pay increases"; "an all-embracing definition"; "blanket sanctions against human-rights violators"; "an invention with broad applications"; "a panoptic study of Soviet nationality"- T.G.Winner; "granted him wide powers" [syn: across-the- board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, blanket(a), broad, encompassing, extensive, panoptic, wide]
adjective
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]
Definition of 'Extensive'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Capable of being extended. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Silver beaters choose the finest coin, as that which is most extensive under the hammer. --Boyle. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'extensive'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Gargantuan,
- 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