extensive

extensive is a 9-letter English word with 5 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 19 in Scrabble and 21 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 19 · Words With Friends 21 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. 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.
2. adjective. Capable of being extended.
3. adjective. broad in scope or content- T.G.Winner

   "across-the-board pay increases"

   "an all-embracing definition"

   Synonyms: blanket, broad, encompassing, panoptic, wide

4. adjective. large in spatial extent or range or scope or quantity

   "an extensive Roman settlement in northwest England"

   "extended farm lands"

   Synonyms: extended

5. adjective. of agriculture; increasing productivity by using large areas with minimal outlay and labor

   "producing wheat under extensive conditions"

   "agriculture of the extensive type"

Synonyms

blanket, broad, encompassing, panoptic, wide, extended

Common word forms

extensively, extensiveness

Words from these letters

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