extensive
UK/ɪkˈstɛn.sɪv//ɪkˈstɛn.sɪv/
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extensive adjective: having a great extent; covering a large area; vast.
Adjective
extensive (comparative more extensive, superlative most extensive)
- Having a great extent; covering a large area; vast.
- In the second century of the Christian era, the Empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilised portion of mankind. The frontiers of that extensive monarchy were guarded by ancient renown and disciplined valour.1776, Edward Gibbon, chapter 1, in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- Considerable in amount.
- I have done extensive research on the subject.
- Serving to extend or lengthen; characterized by extension.
- For station is properly no rest, but one kind of motion, relating unto that which physicians (from Galen) do name extensive or tonical; that is, an extension of the muscles and organs of motion, maintaining the body at length, or in its proper figure.1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC
- Having a combined system entropy that equals the sum of the entropies of the independent systems.
- According to Tsallis (1988), the entropy was extensive for T = 1, superextensive for t < 1 and subextensive for t > 1.2000, Roman Teisseyre, Eugeniusz Majewski, Earthquake Thermodynamics and Phase Transformation in the Earth's Interior, →ISBN
extensive meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
extensive in Hindi
- wide
- विस्तृत vistŕt, व्यापक vyāpak
extensive in Tamil
- படர்ந்த, பரந்தகன்ற, மிகுந்த, விரிவான, விரிவான பரந்த, பரந்த
extensive in Urdu
- بڑا, چوڑا, فراخ, وسیع
extensive in Bengali
- extensive, far-reaching, widespread
- ব্যাপক bêpok
- extensive, comprehensive, widespread
- ব্যাপ্ত bêptô
More languagesFewer languages
- extensive in Telugu
- విరివి virivi, విస్తృతము vistr̥tamu
- extensive in Malayalam
- അതിവ്യാപകമായ, വിസ്തീർണ്ണമായ, സമഗ്രമായ, വിശാലമായ
- extensive in Kannada
- ದೊಡ್ಡ ಪ್ರಮಾಣದ, ವಿಸ್ತಾರವಾದ, ವ್ಯಾಪಕವಾದ
- extensive in Odia
- ବିସ୍ତାର bistāra, ପ୍ରଶସ୍ତ praśasta, ଦୀର୍ଘ dirgha
- extensive in Sanskrit
- विस्तीर्ग vistīrṇa, विशाल viśāla
Examples of extensive in a sentence
- Despite extensive simulation in the design phase, the aircraft failed to behave as expected.
- His archive of Old High German texts is the most extensive in Britain.
- His extensive mining for apparently statistically significant results made any of his results questionable.
Forms of extensive
| comparative | more extensive |
|---|---|
| superlative | most extensive |
Origin of extensive
From late Middle English, borrowed from Late Latin extensīvus, from Latin extensus.
Words formed from extensive
Phrases with extensive
Questions about extensive
- What does extensive mean?
- Extensive means having a great extent; covering a large area; vast.
- What is extensive in Hindi?
- Extensive in Hindi is विस्तृत (vistŕt), व्यापक (vyāpak). See Extensive meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is extensive?
- Extensive is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce extensive?
- Extensive is pronounced /ɪkˈstɛn.sɪv/ (UK).
Words near extensive in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: extensive (page history and authors); extensive (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); extensive (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ব্যাপক (Bengali) (page history and authors); విరివి (Telugu) (page history and authors); extensive (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); extensive (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ଦୀର୍ଘ (Odia) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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