Extensive

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.


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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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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