extensive
/ɪkˈstɛnsɪv
/ /ɛkˈstɛnsɪv/adjective
1Covering or affecting a large area: an extensive garden...
- This extensive over-development would affect the lives of everyone living in Fulford.
- Today it belongs to the Rockefeller Foundation, but the extensive gardens are open to small guided tours.
- The garden, quite extensive at that, had sported an abandoned look for a long time.
Synonyms
large, large-scale, sizeable, substantial, considerable, ample, great, huge, vast, immense, boundless, immeasurable;
spacious, capacious, commodious, voluminous, roomy;
broad, expansive, sweeping
1.1Large in amount or scale: an extensive collection of silver...
- I have a fairly extensive amount of work done on the subject, and a number of links that are worth following.
- Your Honour will realise there is an extensive amount of material on there.
- There's nowhere else in the world you could see such an extensive and amazing collection of modern art.
Synonyms
comprehensive, thorough, complete, exhaustive, profound, boundless;
broad, wide, vast, wide-ranging, all-inclusive, all-embracing, all-encompassing, sweeping, wholesale, catholic, universal, across the board, cross-disciplinary, interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary
2(Of agriculture) obtaining a relatively small crop from a large area with a minimum of capital and labour: extensive farming techniques...Often contrasted with intensive (sense 1 of the adjective).
- Secondly, at the time of the Mayans there was no extensive agriculture in Venezuela.
- Viticulture is most extensive in the Rhine and Mosel valleys in west Germany and is an important export industry.
- The REPS scheme should be ideally suited to the more extensive type of farming in island areas.
Derivatives
extensiveness
/ /ɛkˈstɛnsɪvnəs / noun ...- Presently, the best views of the extensiveness of Gold Coast canals are seen from the air.
- Perhaps the lack of social integration is related to the extensiveness of many students’ work schedules.
- Using a single-head machine to stitch out my creations, I was able to see firsthand the extensiveness of the software's capabilities.
Origin
Late Middle English: from French extensif, -ive or late Latin extensivus, from extens- 'stretched out', from the verb extendere (see extend).