About The Word Extensive
Learn about the word Extensive to help solve your crossword puzzle. Discover Extensive definitions and meaning, origins, synonyms, related terms and more at the free Crossword Dictionary.
Extensive
| Extensive Definition And Meaning |
|---|
What's The Definition Of Extensive?
[adj] large in number or quantity (especially of discourse); "she took copious notes"; "extensive press coverage"; "a subject of voluminous legislation"
[adj] having broad range or effect; "had extensive press coverage"; "far-reaching changes in the social structure"; "sweeping reforms" [adj] great in range or scope; "an extended vocabulary"; "surgeons with extended experience"; "extensive examples of picture writing"; "suffered extensive damage"; "a wide selection" [adj] large in spatial extent or range; "an extensive Roman settlement in northwest England"; "extended farm lands" [adj] of agriculture; increasing productivity by using large areas with minimal outlay and labor; "producing wheat under extensive conditions"; "agriculture of the extensive type" Synonyms | Synonyms for Extensive: abundant | big | comprehensive | considerable | copious | extended | far-reaching | large | sweeping | voluminous | wide Related Terms | Find terms related to Extensive: 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 | fargoing | far-going | far-ranging | far-reaching | 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 | widespread | wide-stretching | without end | worldwide See Also | Extensive In Webster's Dictionary \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.
2. Capable of being extended. [Obs.]
Silver beaters choose the finest coin, as that which
is most extensive under the hammer. --Boyle.
|
More Crossword Puzzle Words
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
Cross Word Of The Day
- Wasting ‐ a decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse [n]…
- Culicidae ‐ mosquitoes
- Hydroxyacetic acid ‐ a translucent crystalline compound found in sugar cane and sugar…
- Vesuvius ‐ a volcano in southwestern Italy on the Mediterranean coast; erupted…
- Starwort ‐ low-growing north temperate herb having small white star-shaped…
- Fraser fir ‐ small fast-growing but short-lived fir of southern Alleghenies…
- Inexorability ‐ mercilessness characterized by an unwillingness to relent or…
- Anti-semitic ‐ discriminatory especially on the basis of race or religion [adj]…
- Katharobe ‐ an organism that lives in an oxygenated medium lacking organic…
- Synagrops ‐ a genus of…