extensive
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
extensive/ɪkˈstensɪv/
▶adjective
- 1 covering a large area.
■ large in amount or scale.
- 2 (of agriculture) obtaining a relatively small crop from a large area with a minimum of capital and labour. Often contrasted with intensive.
– derivatives
extensively adverb,
extensiveness noun.
extensively adverb,
extensiveness noun.
'extensive' also found in these Oxford entries:
archipelago
- badlands
- Bantu
- battery
- battleship
- beyond
- blanket bog
- Cambrian
- Carboniferous
- coalfield
- conflagration
- Corallian
- diffuse
- empire
- estate
- expand
- expansive
- far-reaching
- glacial period
- groundswell
- hangar
- heathland
- hypertext
- ice age
- ice sheet
- immeasurable
- information superhighway
- intensive
- large-scale
- limitless
- London clay
- Mede
- mirador
- moorland
- parkway
- Permian
- prospect
- ravage
- semi-skilled
- sheep run
- sheet
- significant
- solarium
- well worn
- wholesale
- wide
- wide-ranging
- World Wide Web

