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How to pronounce extensive in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms extended
Derivation extend, extensiveness


an extensive Roman settlement in northwest England.
they suffered extensive damage.
Type Words
Synonyms across-the-board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, blanket, broad, encompassing, panoptic, wide
Derivation extensiveness
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producing wheat under extensive conditions.
agriculture of the extensive type.

Examples of extensive

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The permit process would involve extensive environmental study and public input.
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Miller had recently undergone extensive heart surgery at Keesler Air Force Base.
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Every day we do different features, a little bit more extensive on the weekends.
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Idlewild Books has an extensive collection of travel and foreign language books.
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The entire house sustained extensive damage, and was demolished Monday, he said.
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The board is developing an extensive list of public focus groups to offer input.
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He has already pulled off a more extensive overhaul than most outsiders realize.
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It provides very limited controls, relying instead on Outlook's extensive rules.
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We are particularly impressed by Mosier's extensive knowledge of eminent domain.
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More examples
  • Large in spatial extent or range or scope or quantity; "an extensive Roman settlement in northwest England"; "extended farm lands"; "surgeons with extended experience"; "they suffered extensive damage"
  • Across-the-board: broad in scope or content; "across-the-board pay increases"; "an all-embracing definition"; "blanket sanctions against human-rights violators"; "an invention with broad applications"; "a panoptic study of Soviet nationality"- T.G.Winner; "granted him wide powers"
  • Of agriculture; increasing productivity by using large areas with minimal outlay and labor; "producing wheat under extensive conditions"; "agriculture of the extensive type"
  • (extensively) in a widespread way; "oxidation ponds are extensively used for sewage treatment in the Midwest"
  • (extensiveness) largeness: large or extensive in breadth or importance or comprehensiveness; "the might have repercussions of unimaginable largeness"; "the very extensiveness of his power was a temptation to abuse it"
  • In the physical sciences, an intensive property (also called a bulk property, intensive quantity, or intensive variable), is a physical property of a system that does not depend on the system size or the amount of material in the system: it is scale invariant.
  • In the nature of an extent, wide, widespread
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  • Some thermodynamic functions of state are extensive: if the intensive variables (, , ) are kept constant, the extensive variables are proportional to the amount of substance present. ...