extensive

  • (s) 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
    extended,
  • (s) 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
    across-the-board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, blanket, encompassing, broad, panoptic, wide,
  • (a) of agriculture; increasing productivity by using large areas with minimal outlay and labor
    • producing wheat under extensive conditions
    • agriculture of the extensive type

Synonyms

extended across-the-board all-embracing all-encompassing all-inclusive blanket encompassing broad panoptic wide

Antonyms

intensive

Words of close approximity

extensile extension
extensively extensiveness