Antonym: intensive. Similar words: extension, offensive, defensive, comprehensive, extend, extent, extended, to some extent. Meaning: [ɪk'stensɪv] adj. 1. large in spatial extent or range or scope or quantity 2. broad in scope or content 3. of agriculture; increasing productivity by using large areas with minimal outlay and labor.
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91. After extensive reading on the subject she set to work on an article.
92. The council is to carry out extensive renovations to the building.
93. The exhibition has received extensive coverage in the national press.
94. The company is believed to be keen to sell its extensive brewing interests.
95. The municipal government will launch an extensive public works program next year.
96. Investigations had revealed extensive rot in the beams under the ground floor.
97. Elizabeth Harrison had extensive surgery for bowel cancer.
98. To enable them to fulfil these tasks UDCs have been granted extensive financial,[sentencedict .com] planning and land acquisition powers.
99. Nevertheless, many agrochemical companies are undertaking extensive research programmes on biological control.
100. Extensive field research can mean long periods living under adverse conditions to which the researcher is unaccustomed.
101. The Society already has an extensive collection of gas appliances which will also be displayed.
102. A persuasive argument that democracy can and should be based on active and extensive participation by the citizenry.
103. Now he had an ancestry, as noble and extensive as he wished.
104. Paradoxically the ecological problems deriving from the application of artificial fertilizers are often equally complex and extensive.
105. Initial indications are that the basic rocks responsible for the gravity anomaly are more extensive than originally mapped.
106. The departmental library is on four floors with two large reading rooms and an extensive map and atlas store.
107. Seaman badly bruised a hip and came off early in the second half last weekend but has received extensive treatment.
108. In so far as socialism means the collective ownership and management of the economy and social relations, it requires an extensive administrative apparatus.
109. Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
110. Defensible conclusions in analyses of politics often require extensive data, thorough analysis, and consideration of several alternative explanations.
111. He was thus involved in extensive travelling throughout the District, addressing meetings of branches(sentencedict.com), trade unions and co-operative societies.
112. One characteristic of contemporary art history has been its extensive use of non-art-historical texts.
113. Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation; and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.
114. Most trains are steam hauled by one of the railway's extensive collection of tank engines and include full buffet car facilities.
115. Later astronomers made extensive alterations, and added new groups made up of stars stolen from the existing 48.
116. He gambles on football, thinks Las Vegas is heavenly and isn't averse to extensive investment in the stock market.
117. During the event, extensive water quality samples were taken to assess the degree of pollution.
118. The disaster in Rangoon had touched off an extensive reorganization of the bureaucracy dealing with North-South and international affairs.
119. I would like to propose one broadly based category which will clearly require extensive elaboration and refinement.
120. Difficulties arise in patients who are grossly obese and in those who have undergone extensive surgery in the upper abdomen.
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