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Meaning of 'extensive' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Extensive [ a.]
- 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.

Meaning of 'extensive' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . extensive [ a]
Meaning (1):
- of agriculture; increasing productivity by using large areas with minimal outlay and labor
Example in sentence:
  • agriculture of the extensive type;
  • producing wheat under extensive conditions
2 . extensive [ s]
Meaning (2):
- broad in scope or content
Example in sentence:
  • a panoptic study of Soviet nationality;
  • across-the-board pay increases;
  • an all-embracing definition;
  • an invention with broad applications;
  • blanket sanctions against human-rights violators;
  • granted him wide powers
Meaning (3):
- large in spatial extent or range or scope or quantity
Example in sentence:
  • an extensive Roman settlement in northwest England;
  • extended farm lands;
  • surgeons with extended experience;
  • they suffered extensive damage

Nearby Words:

extacy extance extancy extant extasy extatic extemporal extemporanean extemporaneous extemporarily

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