extensive

extensive
    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(a)}, {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}]
    

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.
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   2. Capable of being extended. [Obs.]
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            Silver beaters choose the finest coin, as that which
            is most extensive under the hammer.   --Boyle.
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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