extensive
When something is far-reaching or expansive it is extensive. When your friend knows every single place and time that his favorite band has played any given song, he has extensive knowledge of that band.
Use the adjective extensive for something that goes on and on and on. It works for anything that covers a lot of territory either in physical space, as in "the gardens at the palace are extensive," or conceptually, as in "her knowledge of the mortgage-backed securities market is extensive." If you are a farmer, you would also use extensive to mean that you are able to work a lot of land without too much effort or manual labor.
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large in spatial extent or range or scope or quantity
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broad in scope or content
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synonyms:
across-the-board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, blanket, broad, encompassing, panoptic, sweeping, wide
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comprehensive, overarching
including all or everything
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comprehensive, overarching
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of agriculture; increasing productivity by using large areas with minimal outlay and labor“producing wheat under extensive conditions”“agriculture of the extensive type”
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antonyms:
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intensive
of agriculture; intended to increase productivity of a fixed area by expending more capital and labor
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intensive
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Vocabulary lists containing extensive
The sole survivor of a plane crash in the Canadian wilderness, thirteen-year-old Brian Robeson will need resourcefulness, courage, and strength in order to stay alive.
While trying to track down her missing mother, thirteen-year-old Salamanca entertains her grandparents with strange stories about a girl named Phoebe Winterbottom.
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