extensive

Speech parts

1. extensive - Adjective

2. extensive - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

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.

Capable of being extended.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

broad large great wide extended considerable substantial vast comprehensive large-scale lengthy immense thorough sweeping blanket
Show all synonyms

Antonyms

intensive curt flake shoal piccolo synoptic
Show all antonyms

Related terms

extent extend extense

Phrases with the word

extensive range of more extensive least extensive less extensive extensive fire extensive farm

Examples

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe. Herbert Hoover

Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind. Paul Theroux

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do. Benjamin Disraeli

No state more extensive than the minimal state can be justified. Robert Nozick

Oh, yeah, I love DVD's. I don't have what you'd call an extensive collection, maybe a couple of hundred or so. But I have something on almost all the time. David Fincher

The most extensive land is the human belly. Rwandan Proverb

Close letter words and terms

extensionless extensionlessness extensity extensive agriculture extensive analysis extensive beach