Definition: 1. Large in spatial extent or range. 2. Having broad range or effect. 3. Large in number or quantity (especially of discourse). 4. Great in range or scope.
Use 'extensive' in a sentence:
1. The house has extensive grounds.
2. The most extensive approach is a full thesaurus.
3. It's a fair guess to say that the damage will be extensive.
4. Mr Marr makes extensive use of exclusively Scottish words.
5. He has received extensive corrective surgery to his skull.
6. The ship finished an extensive refit last year.
7. So pastoralism is a more extensive lifeway than farming is.
8. This TV program, which is about Chinese education, has attracted extensive attention of the society.
9. The local bus service is well run and extensive.
10. It has an extensive atmosphere.
11. Agriculture developed slowly among populations that had an extensive knowledge of plants and animals.
12. There will be extensive renovations to the hospital.
13. Experts believe that the coming drought will be extensive.
14. The story had an extensive popularity among American readers.
15. The blast caused extensive damage, shattering the ground-floor windows.
16. The blast caused extensive damage to the house.
17. Investigations had revealed extensive rot in the beams under the ground floor.
18. She suffered extensive injuries in the accident.
19. She recently completed an extensive study of elected officials who began their political careers before the age of 35.
20. The facilities available are very extensive.
21. His extensive experience in other parts of Asia helped him to overcome cultural barriers.
22. There have been extensive consultations between the two countries.
23. He has garnered extensive support for his proposals.
24. There was a pretty extensive library of spectral line patterns of elements even by the 1860s.
25. The company announced an extensive stock buy-back program.
26. The subject boasts of an extensive literature.
27. Developments in South Africa receive extensive coverage in The Sunday Telegraph.
28. Nahuatl, like Greek and German, is a language that allows the formation of extensive compounds.
29. The unique design is based on extensive battlefield experience in full scale and low intensity conflicts.
30. The hull had suffered extensive damage to the starboard side.
31. They appear only in equatorial regions and generally do not form extensive interconnected networks.
32. They began to lay in extensive stores of food supplies.
33. They increased the need for extensive irrigation in the Teotihuacán Valley.
34. The profession offers a bundle of benefits, not least of which is extensive training.
35. How such extensive damage could have been sustained so quickly remains unexplained.
36. It was a large explosion and the resulting damage was extensive.
37. His knowledge of music is extensive.
38. Extensive repair work is being carried out.
39. The shop stocks an extensive range of beach wear.
40. The fire caused extensive damage.
41. When built, the palace and its grounds were more extensive than the city itself.
42. The resort is surrounded by extensive national and regional parklands.
43. The security forces have extensive powers of search and arrest.
44. The UN system will be in a position to support the extensive relief efforts needed.
45. He has carried out extensive research into renewable energy sources.
46. The report is underpinned by extensive research.
47. Extensive research has been done into this disease.
48. After extensive research, Albert Hoffman first succeeded in synthesizing the acid in 1938.
