Extensive

Definition: Extensive

Extensive

Adjective

1. Large in spatial extent or range; "an extensive Roman settlement in northwest England"; "extended farm lands".

2. Having broad range or effect; "had extensive press coverage"; "far-reaching changes in the social structure"; "sweeping reforms".

3. Large in number or quantity; "she took copious notes"; "extensive press coverage".

4. Great in range or scope; "an extended vocabulary"; "surgeons with extended experience"; "extensive examples of picture writing"; "suffered extensive damage"; "a wide selection".

5. Of agriculture; increasing productivity by using large areas with minimal outlay and labor; "producing wheat under extensive conditions"; "agriculture of the extensive type".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "extensive" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Etymology: Extensive \Ex*ten"sive\, adjective. [Latin expression extensivus: compare to the French expression extensif. See Extend.]. (references)

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Extensive

Greatness

World-wide, widespread, far-famed, extensive; wholesale; many.

Knowledge

Deep knowledge, profound knowledge, solid knowledge, accurate knowledge, acroatic knowledge, acroamatic knowledge, vast knowledge, extensive knowledge, encyclopedic knowledge, encyclopedic learning; omniscience, pantology.

Space

Adjective: spacious, roomy, extensive, expansive, capacious, ample; widespread, vast, world-wide, uncircumscribed; boundless; (infinite); shoreless, trackless, pathless; extended.

Crosswords: Extensive

Did he dazzle you with his extensive knowledge of mineral water (Reality Bites; writing credit: Ben Stiller, written by Helen Childress.)

They are now conducting an extensive search of the surrounding systems (Star Wars; writing credit: George Lucas)

Yeah, I've done extensive study on this (Speed; writing credit: Graham Yost)

Let me put it this way: I have an extensive collection of nametags and hairnets (Wayne's World; writing credit: Mike Myers)

Then perhaps Caeser will be so good as to teach us, out of his own extensive experience (Gladiator; writing credit: David Franzoni)

The Extensive Wardrobe (1902)

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Books

• 21st Century Complete Guide to the Yucca Mountain Nevada Nuclear Waste Repository: Encyclopedic Coverage of Proposed Permanent Radioactive Waste Disposal Facility with Environmental Impact Studies, Scientific Research, Project Plans, and Extensive Illustr (reference)

• Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley: Comprising the Results of Extensive Original Surveys and Explorations (Antiquities of the New World, V.) (reference)

• Extensive Reading Activities for Teaching Language (reference)

• Extensive Reading in the Second Language Classroom (reference)

• Taiwan: Key Facts 2002 Extensive statistical profile of Taiwan and its hi-tech sector - fully updated for 2002 [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

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Periodicals

• International Register Of Civil Aircraft Information Service Extensive Cd-Rom (reference)

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Gross pathology of intestinal amebiasis showing extensive ulceration. Credit: CDC.

Histopathology of gastrocnemius muscle from patient who died of pseudohypertrophic muscular dystrophy, Duchenne type. Cross section of muscle shows extensive replacement of muscle fibers by adipose cells. Credit: CDC.

"Pseudo I-WP" by Alan Schoen. An approximation to a unit cell of Schoen's I-WP surface. Click on Edit inside DPGraph for extensive comments. More ...

The Ganges River forms an extensive delta where it empties into the Bay of Bengal. The delta is largely covered with a swamp forest known as the Sunderbans, which is home to the Royal Bengal Tiger. Credit: NASA.

The Lena River, some 2,800 miles(4,500km) long, is one of the largest rivers in the world. The Lena Delta Reserve is the most extensive protected wilderness area in Russia. It is an important refuge and breeding grounds for many species of Siberian wildlife. Credit: NASA.

The MV Columbus Iselin grounded on Looe Key in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary in August 1994. When the ship grounded it caused extensive damage to the reef. This image shows a huge swath of coral rubble at the impact site. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

North Inlet - Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Aerial view of meandering tidal creeks and extensive pristine marshes in North Inlet Estuary. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Figure 29. Pillsbury current meter invented by John Elliott Pillsbury and used in an extensive study of the Gulf Stream studies beginning in 1876. But it was not until 1885 that Pillsbury used this instrument in the Straits of Florida at a depth of 640 meters. He was a naval officer assigned to duty on the Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship BLAKE during these years. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

An extensive farmstead windbreak, terraces, grassed waterways, conservation buffers and conservation tillage combine to protect this farm in Woodbury County in western Iowa. Credit: Lynn Betts.

The San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area, containing about 40 miles of the upper San Pedro River, was designated by Congress as a National Conservation Area (NCA) on November 18, 1988. The primary purpose for the designation is to protect and enhance the desert riparian ecosystem, a rare remnant of what was once an extensive network of similar riparian systems throughout the southwest. The NCA contains more than 250 recorded prehistoric and historic sites, including the remnants of a Spanish fort called the Presidio Santa Cruz de Terrenate built in 1780. Credit: Unknown.

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That is to say, by paving the way for more extensive and more destructive crises, and by diminishing the means whereby crises are prevented. (reference)

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My acquaintance is so very extensive, that I have little doubt of hearing of something to suit her shortly

It was not extensive.

But while they are everlasting they are at the same time, as you know, intolerably intense, unbearably extensive.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Other factors require more extensive study. (references)

Surgery may be needed for extensive infections. (references)

For some outcomes, such as RDS, data were extensive. (references)

Business

Greek banks have extensive correspondent relationships with U.S. banks. (references)

Egypt is a developing country with extensive facilities for the foreign tourist. (references)

The Japanese also do extensive market research and have excellent after-sales service. (references)

Children

Uruguay

INAME maintains an extensive network of programs, including shelters for at-risk children. (references)

Vanuatu

Child abuse is not extensive; however, the Government has done little to combat the problem. (references)

Cambodia

Despite an extensive government school construction program, schools are overcrowded and lack sufficient equipment. (references)

Civil Liberties

Israel and the occupied territories

Palestinians also report extensive delays in registering newborn children with Israeli authorities. (references)

Macedonia

Many churches and mosques had extensive grounds or other properties that were expropriated by the Communist regime. (references)

Indonesia

Television networks increased their news coverage during the year, including extensive coverage of the DPR and MPR sessions. (references)

Economic History

Mozambique

Economic reform has been extensive. (references)

Costa Rica

Millicom suffered extensive losses. (references)

Brazil

Proven mineral resources are extensive. (references)

Human Rights

Bahrain

Police informer networks are extensive and sophisticated. (references)

Burkina Faso

The President has extensive appointment and other judicial powers. (references)

Austria

The system of judicial review provides for extensive possibilities for appeal. (references)

Indigenous People

Canada

Historical treaties with native groups in eastern Canada form the basis for the Federal Government's policies there, but the antiquated language and uncertain intent have resulted in extensive legal challenges to the Government's interpretation of treaty rights. (references)

Minorities

India

A few days of rioting ensued in the cities of Amritsar, Kanpur, and Baramulla followed, resulting in extensive property damage and several deaths. (references)

Japan

Naturalization procedures also required an extensive background check, including inquiries into the applicant's economic status and assimilation into Japanese society. (references)

Political Economy

Qatar

It vests extensive powers in the Emir. (references)

INDIA

Documentation requirements are extensive and delays are frequent. (references)

ROMANIA

Government approval of joint ventures requires extensive documentation. (references)

Political Rights

Turkmenistan

Diplomatic observers noted many empty polling stations, extensive use of mobile ballot boxes, and numerous instances of family voting. (references)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

The SDP party office in Vitez suffered extensive damage in a bomb explosion on May 1; police arrested a Croat man in the attack, which police believe was motivated by the HDZ's self-government drive. (references)

Singapore

The PAP has an extensive grassroots system and a carefully selected, highly disciplined membership, including M.P.'s who maintain close contact with their constituents and who deliver effective government services. (references)

Trade

West Bank

It offers extensive overdraft privileges to the PA. (references)

Japan

The list of JETRO's import promotion programs is extensive. (references)

India

India has an extensive banking network in both urban and rural areas. (references)

Travel

Spain

The Spanish railway system is extensive. (references)

Argentina

Buenos Aires has extensive subway and bus routes. (references)

Uruguay

Within Montevideo, bus and taxi services are extensive and inexpensive. (references)

Women

Pakistan

The problem is believed to be even more extensive in rural Sindh. (references)

Bhutan

There is no evidence that rape or spousal abuse are extensive problems. (references)

Gambia

Traditional views of women's roles result in extensive societal discrimination in education and employment. (references)

Worker Rights

Malawi

The law includes extensive occupational health and safety standards. (references)

Italy

The enforcement of minimum age or other child protection laws is difficult in the extensive underground economy. (references)

Burkina Faso

Collective bargaining is extensive in the modern wage sector, but it encompasses only a small percentage of workers. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Extensive

Expressions using "extensive": extensive damage ♦ extensive magnitudes. Additional references.

Beginning with "extensive": extensive-stage small cell lung cancer.

Ending with "extensive": co-extensive.

Afrikaans

uitgestrek (spacious, vast, wide). (various references)

Albanian

i shtrirë (expansive, outspread, outstretched, prone, prostrate, recumbent, spreading), i gjerë (ample, broad, broadminded, capacious, champaign, commodious, expanded, far flung, far reaching, hospitable, large, large scale, liberal, massive, mighty, rangy, roomy, spacious, splay, sweeping, vast, vasty, wide), gjithëpërfshirës (all out, all-embracing, comprehensive, inclusive, sweeping). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ممتد (expanded, extended, outspread, prolonged, protracted, widespread), ‏واسع (ample, broad, capacious, colossal, fair, far flung, generous, immense, large, mighty, oceanic, rich, spacious, wide, widish), ‏شامل (catholic, comprehensible, comprehensive, full, full scale, general, generic, global, including, inclusive, overall, pandemic, perfect, sweeping, thorough, total, universal). (various references)

Bulgarian 

широк (ample, broad, capacious, catholic, deep, flaring, flyaway, full, large, loose, neglige, spacious, sweeping, untight, vast, voluminous, wide), обширен (ample, broad, commodious, comprehensive, expansive, far flung, generic, large, large scale, rangy, spacious, vast, vasty, voluminous, wide), екстензивен, просторен (commodious, expansive, extended, large, oceanic, rangy, roomy, spacious, vast, wide). (various references)

Chinese 

遼闊 (vast), 博 (aim, ample, and a half, half, incomplete, obtain, plentiful, rich, semi-, to gamble, to get, to win), 溥 (pervading), 氾 (to overflow), 广泛 (Widely, wide-ranging), 大規模 (broad scale, large scale, wide scale), 廣博 , 廣泛 (wide range), 廣大 (vast). (various references)

Czech

extenzivní, znaèný (appreciable, considerable, fair, handsome, sizable, some, substantial, substantive, tidy), rozsáhlý (big, comprehensive, far flung, large, vast, widespread), dalekosáhlý (far reaching, thoroughgoing), bohatý (abundant, affluent, ample, bounteous, bountiful, copious, exuberant, generous, lavish, moneyed, opulent, plentiful, prostate, rich, rife, voluminous, wealthy, well off). (various references)

Danish

rummelig (spacious, vast, wide), omfattende (comprehensive), kompleks (complex). (various references)

Dutch

veelomvattend (ample, bulky, comprehensive, sizable), uitgebreid (ample, bulky, comprehensively, sizable, spacious, vast, wide). (various references)

Esperanto

vasta (spacious, vast, wide), ampleksa (ample, bulky). (various references)

Faeroese

víður (broad, spacious, vast, wide), rúmur (spacious, vast, wide). (various references)

Farsi 

پهناور (Ample, Broad, Immense, Vast, Wide), کشیده (Linear, Long, Oblong, Taut), وسیع (Abroad, Ample, Captious, Comprehensive, Immense, Large, Roomy, Spacious, Vast, Wide), بسیط (Comprehensive, Large, Simple), بزرگ (Adult, Arch, Big, Bulky, Egregious, Enormous, Extra, Grand, Grave, Great, Gross, Headman, Jumbo, Large, Lofty, Majestic, Major, Massive, Mighty, Sizable, Sizeable, Swith, Vast, Voluminous). (various references)

Finnish

avara (broad, spacious, vast, wide). (various references)

French

étendu (expanded), ample. (various references)

German

umfangreich (bulkily, bulky, copious, elaborate, fat, heavyset, large scale, spacious, substantial, voluminous, voluminously, wide), ausgiebig (affluent, extensively, rich, substantial, wealthy, well-off), weit (a long way, afar, ample, away, big, broad, by far, capacious, dilated, distant, elastic, far, far away, great, large, long, loose, loose-fitting, open, remote, remotely, roomy, spacious, vast, wide, widely), ausgedehnt (distended, extended, far reaching, lengthy, overstretched, prolonged, spacious, spaciously, stretched, vast, wide). (various references)

Greek 

συνολικός (overall), περιεκτικός (comprehensive, succinct), εκτενήσ (diffusive, lengthy, long-drawn, protracted, widespread), εκτεταμένοσ (expansive, outspread, spacious), εκτεταμένος (extended, far reaching), διεξοδικός (detailed). (various references)

Hebrew 

מקיף (all inclusive, all out, circumscribed, comprehensive, embracing, overall, surrounding, sweeping), פשיט, ענף (bough, branch, branchy, ramified, sector, sprig, sprout, stick, widespread), נרחב (ample, broad, far reaching, spacious, vast, wide). (various references)

Hungarian

kiterjedt (expansive, extended, far reaching, large, spacious, widespread), terjedelmes (ample, big, broad, bulky, expanded, expansive, great, large, sizable, spacious, voluminous), széleskörű (comprehensive, far-flung, large, wide), külterjes, alapos (accurate, basic, deep, drastic, exhaustive, intensive, painstaking, profound, substantial, thorough, thoroughgoing). (various references)

Icelandic

víður (broad, spacious, vast, wide), rúmgóður (spacious, vast, wide). (various references)

Indonesian

luas (amplitude, capacious, commodious, comprehensive, dimensional, expansive, extent, far-ranging (discussion), vast, wide), bambang (vast). (various references)

Italian

vasto (ample, distant, far, large, long, multitudinous, remote, roomy, sweeping, vast, wide, widely). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

膨大 (bulky, enormous, expansion, huge, swelling). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

がいはく (profundity, spending night away from home), ぜんめんてき (all-out, complete, full-scale, general, over-all), ひろびろとした (open, spacious), ひろびろ (spacious), ぼうだい (bulky, enormous, expansion, huge, subtitle, swelling), こうはんい (vast range, wide scope), こうはん (comprehensive, deck, erythema, mimeograph, public hearing, red spots, second half, steel plate, steel sheet, trial, wide, wide-ranging, widespread), こうだい (future generations, grand, great, huge, immense, impressive, magnificent, posterity, technical college, vast, very large), はばひろい (broad, wide), だいだいてき (grand, great, large-scale). (various references)

Korean 

광대한. (various references)

Manx

rheamyssagh, mooar (big, bold, bold promintary, capacious, chief, commodious, difficult, extravagant, familiar, grand, great, grievous, heavy, hit off, hobnob, intense, intimate, loose-fitting, major, marked, powerful, tall), lhean (broad, flat of nose, full, full of chin, sheet, sweeping, wide), feayn (expansive, horizontal, roomy, vague, vast, wide). (various references)

Norwegian

vid (loose, spacious, vast, wide). (various references)

Pig Latin

extensiveay.(various references)

Portuguese

vasto (all-embracing, boundless, colossal, deep, far-flung, far-reaching, great, huge, immense, open, spacious, sweeping, vast, vasty, wide), extenso (ample, broad, bulky, comprehensive, expansive, far-flung, far-reaching, flyaway, large, long, slip-on, spacious, sweeping, vast, voluminous, wide), extensivo (denotative). (various references)

Romanian

extins (broad, expansive), extensiv (comprehensive, extending, wide), voluminos (big, bulky, capacious, gross, man-sized, massive, spacious, stodgy, voluminous), vast (ample, broad, comprehensive, expansive, far reaching, large, measureless, spacious, vast, wide), lung (lengthy, livelong, long, long winded, protracted, vast), larg (ample, broad, broadly, comprehensive, full, large, loose, mighty, open-mindedly, roomy, space, spacious, spaciousness, vast, wide), cuprinzãtor (ample, broad, compendious, comprehensive, far reaching, inclusive, long range, open-mindedly, wide), considerabil (appreciable, considerable, considerably, fair, far, great, handsome, heavy, large, notably, notedly, noticeably, sensible, significant, tidy, wide), amplu (abundant, ample, amply, fully, good, handsomely, lush, rich, spacious), întins (broad, even, expanse, expansion, expansive, flat, flatly, large, lengthy, mighty, open, outspread, prone, recumbent, smooth, spacious, sprawling, strained, stretched, supine, taut, tense, vast). (various references)

Russian 

экстенсивный, расширенный (exaggerated, expanded, varicose), обширный (ample, big, broad, expansive, extended, far flung, far-flung, large, long, rangy, spacious, vast, voluminous, wide-ranging), пространный. (various references)

Scottish

fadhail (a sea ford, extensive beach). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ekstenzivan (extensile), prostran (broad, capacious, commodious, rangy, spacious, vast), opširan (in depth, large, lengthy), obiman (ample, capacious, comprehensive, large, massive, massy, spacious, voluminous), širok (broad, full, loose, spacious, spreading, wide). (various references)

Spanish

extenso (big, broad, capacious, far flung, full, large, lengthy, spacious, vast, wide, widespread), extensivo. (various references)

Swedish

vidsträckt (ample, expansive, large, vast, wide, widely-spread). (various references)

Thai

กว้างขวาง (broad). (various references)

Turkish

engin (boundless, exalted, immense, offing, wide), yaygın (broad, common, diffuse, diffusive, endemic, epidemic, epidemical, expansive, familiar, far flung, general, pandemic, pervasive, prevailing, prevalent, regnant, rife, wide, widespread), uzatılmış (elongated, outstretched, prolonged, renewed), geniş ölçüde yapılan, geniş (ample, broad, broadly, capacious, commodious, comprehensive, cosmic, cosmical, expansive, extended, full, large, obtuse, open, roomy, spacious, splay, vast, walk in, wide). (various references)

Turkmen 

зuсalmak. (various references)

Ukrainian

екстенсивний, просторий (acred, ample, broad, capacious, commodious, expansive, far flung, loose, omnibus, rangy, space, spacious, wide), далекоосяжний (farreaching). (various references)

Vietnamese 

rộng rãi (bounteous, bountiful, commodious, free-handed, handsome, large-hearted, liberal, open-handed, open-minded, roomy, spacious), rộng (ample, broad, broadly, capacious, far-flung, large, splay, wide), bao quát quảng canh. (various references)

Welsh

helaeth (abundant, ample). (various references)

latus. (various references)

masô, vouru. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "extensive": extensively, extensiveness, extensivenesses. (additional references)

Words ending with "extensive": coextensive. (additional references)

Words containing "extensive": coextensively. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Extensive" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: exoenzyme, extencive, extensa, extensify, exten-sive. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: evenest, sixteen, tensive.

-3 letters: envies, events, evites, exines, invest, nieves, steeve, vestee, vixens.

-4 letters: evens, event, evite, exine, exist, exits, inset, neist, neves, nieve, nites, nixes, seine, sente, senti, seven, sieve, sixte, stein, teens, tense, tines, veins, vents, vexes, vines, vixen.

-5 letters: even, eves, exes, exit, nest, nets, neve, nevi, next, nite, nits, nixe.

+2 letters: coextensive, extensively.

+4 letters: coextensively, extensiveness, nonexecutives, overanxieties, overexertions, overextension.

+5 letters: exhaustiveness, overextensions.