Extensive Meaning
/ɪkˈstɛn.sɪv/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjHaving a great extent; covering a large area; vast.
adjConsiderable in amount.
Sentence Examples
Those selected will have to face extensive medical and psychological tests.
The flood did the village extensive damage.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The archaeologist conducted an ____ search of the ancient ruins for artifacts.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The fire caused ____ damage to the building, and it will take months to repair it all.
Word Origin & History
From late Middle English, borrowed from Late Latin extensīvus, from Latin extensus.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"In the second century of the Christian era, the Empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilised portion of mankind. The frontiers of that extensive monarchy were guarded by ancient renown and disciplined valour."
— 1776, Edward Gibbon, chapter 1, in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire:
"For station is properly no rest, but one kind of motion, relating unto that which physicians (from Galen) do name extensive or tonical; that is, an extension of the muscles and organs of motion, maintaining the body at length, or in its proper figure."
— 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
"According to Tsallis (1988), the entropy was extensive for T = 1, superextensive for t < 1 and subextensive for t > 1."
— 2000, Roman Teisseyre, Eugeniusz Majewski, Earthquake Thermodynamics and Phase Transformation in the Earth's Interior, →ISBN:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The archaeologist conducted an ____ search of the ancient ruins for artifacts.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The fire caused ____ damage to the building, and it will take months to repair it all.