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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Extensive \Ex*ten"sive\, adjective [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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
extensive
adjective
1: large in spatial extent or range; "an extensive Roman settlement in northwest England"; "extended farm lands" [syn: {extended}]
2: having broad range or effect; "had extensive press coverage"; "far-reaching changes in the social structure"; "sweeping reforms" [syn: {far-reaching}, {sweeping}]
3: large in number or quantity (especially of discourse); "she took copious notes"; "extensive press coverage"; "a subject of voluminous legislation" [syn: {copious}, {voluminous}]
4: great in range or scope; "an extended vocabulary"; "surgeons with extended experience"; "extensive examples of picture writing"; "suffered extensive damage"; "a wide selection" [syn: {extended}, {wide}]
5: 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}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
107 Moby Thesaurus words for "extensive": Gargantuan, 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, far-going, far-ranging, far-reaching, fargoing, full, galactic, 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, wide-stretching, widespread, without end, worldwide
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