extensive
Meaning of extensive
- covering or affecting a large area.
an extensive garden
- (of agriculture) obtaining a relatively small crop from a large area with a minimum of capital and labour.
extensive farming techniques
late Middle English: from French extensif, -ive or late Latin extensivus, from extens- ‘stretched out’, from the verb extendere (see extend).
Information about extensive
- It is an adjective.
- Languages in which extensive is used:
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Hyphenation of extensive
ex-ten-sive
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- extensive is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
extensive synonyms
Meaning extended:
Meaning across-the-board:
blanket, broad, encompassing, panoptic, wide
Meaning of wide range or scope:
Meaning fairly large:
Meaning of considerable importance, size, or worth:
Meaning notably large in size, amount, or extent:
Meaning large and accommodating:
Meaning of an extent, amount, or intensity considerably above average:
Meaning extremely large; enormous:
Meaning of very great extent or quantity; immense:
Meaning extremely large or great, especially in scale or degree:
Meaning unlimited or immense:
Meaning too large, extensive, or extreme to measure:
Meaning (especially of a room or building) having ample space:
Meaning having a lot of space inside; roomy:
Meaning roomy and comfortable:
Meaning (of clothes) very loose or full; having much fabric:
Meaning (especially of accommodation) having plenty of room; spacious:
Meaning covering a wide area in terms of space or scope; extensive:
Meaning extending or performed in a long, continuous curve:
extensive antonyms
Meaning of a size that is less than normal or usual:
Translation of extensive
- Spanish: amplio, amplia, vasto, vasta, extenso, extensa, extensivo, extensiva
- Italian: ampio, vasto
- Portuguese: extenso
- French: vaste
Words that rhyme with extensive
abrasive, airbrasive, appeasive, assuasive, corrasive, defeasive, dissuasive, evasive, interpervasive, invasive, nonabrasive, nonevasive, noninvasive, nonpersuasive, occasive, persuasive, pervasive, preinvasive, prepersuasive, suasive, ultrapersuasive, unabrasive, unassuasive, unevasive, uninvasive, unpersuasive, unpervasive, unpleasive, adhesive, cohesive, cresive, equicohesive, inadhesive, incohesive, inhesive, nonadhesive, noncohesive, overaggresive, semiadhesive, succesive, suppresive, unadhesive, uncohesive, advisive, appraisive, cicatrisive, collisive, decisive, derisive, divisive