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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

EXTENS'IVE, a. Wide; large; having great enlargement or extent; as an extensive farm; an extensive field; an extensive lake; and extensive sphere of operations; extensive benevolence.
1. That may be extended. [Not used.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1604 1. having wide or considerable extent <extensive reading> 2. extensional 3. of, relating to, or constituting farming in which large areas of land are utilized with minimum outlay and labor • extensively adverb • extensiveness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 covering a large area in space or time. 2 having a wide scope; far-reaching, comprehensive (an extensive knowledge of music). 3 Agriculture involving cultivation from a large area, with a minimum of special resources (cf. INTENSIVE). Derivatives: extensively adv. extensiveness n. Etymology: F extensif -ive or LL extensivus (as EXTENSION)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Extensive 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. Something that is extensive covers or includes a large physical area. ...an extensive tour of Latin America... When built, the palace and its grounds were more extensive than the city itself. ADJ • extensively Mark, however, needs to travel extensively with his varied business interests. ADV: ADV after v 2. Something that is extensive covers a wide range of details, ideas, or items. Developments in South Africa receive extensive coverage in The Sunday Telegraph... The facilities available are very extensive. ADJ • extensively All these issues have been extensively researched in recent years. ADV: ADV after v, ADV adj/-ed 3. If something is extensive, it is very great. The blast caused extensive damage, shattering the ground-floor windows... The security forces have extensive powers of search and arrest... ADJ • extensively Hydrogen is used extensively in industry for the production of ammonia. ADV: ADV after v, ADV -ed

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Wide, large, broad, comprehensive, capacious, extended, expanded.

Moby Thesaurus

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