extensive
covering or extending over a great area: extensive travels.
far-reaching; comprehensive; thorough: extensive knowledge.
lengthy: an extensive journey.
great in amount, number, or degree: an extensive fortune; extensive political influence.
of or having extension: Space is extensive, time durational.
noting or pertaining to a system of agriculture involving the use or cultivation of large areas of land with a minimum of labor and expense (opposed to intensive).
Origin of extensive
1Other words for extensive
Opposites for extensive
Other words from extensive
- ex·ten·sive·ly, adverb
- ex·ten·sive·ness, ex·ten·siv·i·ty [ek-sten-siv-i-tee, ik-], /ˌɛk stɛnˈsɪv ɪ ti, ɪk-/, noun
- non·ex·ten·sive, adjective
- non·ex·ten·sive·ness, noun
- pre·ex·ten·sive, adjective
Words Nearby extensive
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How to use extensive in a sentence
Doctors provide a useful example here thanks to extensive data on doctor-patient interactions and research into racial inequalities in patient care.
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Belarus is not a country with extensive well-developed ties to other countries outside its neighborhood.
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The posts don’t need to be extensive, persuasive essays to get the job done.
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The building had to be rebuilt in 1963 after extensive damage from the Second World War was finally deemed irreparable.
“Getting a first shot is one thing,” said a former Air Force fighter pilot with extensive experience with Russian weapons.
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The website Bishop Accountability keeps some of the most extensive records on allegations of priestly abuse available.
He was a patriot of the noblest and most extensive views, and justly celebrated as a man of learning, eloquent and refined.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology | Joel MunsellWe had half a dozen passengers to Ferrara; for the rest of the way, I had this extensive traveling establishment to myself.
Glances at Europe | Horace GreeleyIt also occurs in diseases with extensive and rapid destruction of red blood-corpuscles.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell ToddRichard Chiswell, a noted English printer and an extensive publisher, died.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology | Joel MunsellThis library is considered the most valuable and extensive in American history and antiquities, ever collected.
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British Dictionary definitions for extensive
/ (ɪkˈstɛnsɪv) /
having a large extent, area, scope, degree, etc; vast: extensive deserts; an extensive inheritance
widespread: extensive coverage in the press
agriculture involving or farmed with minimum expenditure of capital or labour, esp depending on a large area of land: Compare intensive (def. 3)
physics of or relating to a property, measurement, etc, of a macroscopic system that is proportional to the size of the system: heat is an extensive property Compare intensive (def. 7)
logic
of or relating to logical extension
(of a definition) in terms of the objects to which the term applies rather than its meaning
Derived forms of extensive
- extensively, adverb
- extensiveness, noun
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