extensiveadjective
uk/ɪkˈsten.sɪv/us/ɪkˈsten.sɪv/B2 covering a large area; having a great range:
a school with extensive grounds
extensive repairs to the motorway
Her knowledge of music is extensive (= she knows a lot about music).
The wedding received extensive coverage in the newspapers (= it was written about a lot).
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- The body was found after an extensive search by police with tracker dogs.
- There is an extensive repertoire of music written for the flute.
- Several of the crash victims had to have extensive plastic surgery.
- Her knowledge of English grammar is very extensive.
- The house needed extensive alterations when we moved in.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Big and quite big
- appreciable
- baronial
- burly
- capacious
- commodious
- fair
- grand
- heavy
- L, l
- large-scale
- largish
- macro
- macroscopic
- mass
- side
- supersize
- swamp
- sweeping
- the bigger the better idiom
- uncommon
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extensively
adverb uk/ɪkˈsten.sɪv.li/us/ɪkˈsten.sɪv.li/
The house was extensively rebuilt (= a large part of it was rebuilt ) after the fire.
The side effects of the new drug are being extensively researched (= are being studied in detail).