EXTENSIVE

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

(adjective) 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”

extensive, extended

(adjective) 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”

extensive

(adjective) 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® 3.1

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Etymology

Adjective

extensive (comparative more extensive, superlative most extensive)

having a great extent; covering a large area; vast

(figurative) considerable in amount.

Serving to extend or lengthen; characterized by extension

(physics) Having a combined system entropy that equals the sum of the entropies of the independent systems.

Source: Wiktionary

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Ex*ten"sive, a. Etym: [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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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