Usually means: Covering or affecting a large area.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word Extensive:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. extensive: Merriam-Webster
  2. extensive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. extensive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. extensive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. extensive: Vocabulary.com
  6. Extensive, extensive: Wordnik
  7. extensive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. extensive: Wiktionary
  9. extensive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. extensive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. extensive: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Extensive, extensive: Dictionary.com
  13. extensive: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Extensive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Extensive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. extensive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. extensive: Rhymezone
  18. extensive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. extensive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. extensive: FreeDictionary.org
  21. extensive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. extensive: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. extensive: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. Extensive: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  25. extensive: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. extensive: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. extensive: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. extensive, extensive: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Extensive: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (extensive)

▸ adjective:  Having a great extent; covering a large area; vast.
▸ adjective:  (figurative) Considerable in amount.
▸ adjective:  Serving to extend or lengthen; characterized by extension.
▸ adjective:  (physics) Having a combined system entropy that equals the sum of the entropies of the independent systems.

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wide, far-reaching, comprehensive, large, big, copious, abundant, extended, considerable, sweeping, more...

Opposite:
limited, narrow, restricted, confined, minimal

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property, land, wealth, resources, territory, assets, estate, acreage, holdings, more...

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extensive property, Extensive farming, extensive margin, extensive quantity, co extensive, more...

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Similar:
wide, far-reaching, comprehensive, large, big, copious, abundant, extended, considerable, sweeping, more...

Opposite:
limited, narrow, restricted, confined, minimal

Types:
property, land, wealth, resources, territory, assets, estate, acreage, holdings, more...

Phrases:
extensive property, Extensive farming, extensive margin, extensive quantity, co extensive, extensive form game, Intensive and extensive properties, Extensive reading, extensive knowledge, very extensive, more...

Colors:
    teal,     burgundy,     forest green,     charcoal,     maroon, more...



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