Definition of Extensive

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Extensive

Having wide extent; of much superficial extent; expanded; large; broad; wide; comprehensive; as, an extensive farm; an extensive lake; an extensive sphere of operations; extensive benevolence; extensive greatness.

Capable of being extended.

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Extensive Quotations

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.
Herbert Hoover

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
Benjamin Disraeli

Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity.
Charles Babbage

We desire an expansion of relations with regional states and the establishment of extensive public contacts.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.
Stephen Jay Gould

Attempts have been made from a study of the changes produced by mutation to obtain the relative order of the bases within various triplets, but my own view is that these are premature until there is more extensive and more reliable data on the composition of the triplets.
Francis Crick

Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.
Sydney Smith

It was pretty extensive - we worked out 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, for 3 months, which I think is more than anybody in the Olympics. I thought well I don't need this, the girls need it, but it was a gift.
David Carradine

The U.S. is, so far as I know, the only nation which places such extensive reliance on the polygraph. It has gotten us into a lot of trouble.
Aldrich Ames

After an extensive interview he arranged for my weaknesses in foreign languages to be over-looked and so I started a Biology degree at Birmingham in 1967.
Paul Nurse

Extensive Translations

extensive in Afrikaans is uitgestrek
extensive in Dutch is uitgebreid, omvangrijk, veelomvattend
extensive in Finnish is avara
extensive in German is umfangreich, ausgiebig
extensive in Italian is sostanzioso, vasto
extensive in Latin is latus
extensive in Norwegian is utstrakt, vid, omfattende
extensive in Portuguese is extensivo
extensive in Spanish is extensivo, copioso

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