Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: extensive
IPA transcription: [ɪkst'ɛnsɪv]
Pronunciations of extensive
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adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: extensive, extended
    Meaning: large in spatial extent or range or scope or quantity; "an extensive Roman settlement in northwest England"; "extended farm lands"; "surgeons with extended experience"; "they suffered extensive damage"
  • Synonyms: across-the-board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, blanket(a), broad, encompassing, extensive, panoptic, wide
    Meaning: broad in scope or content; "across-the-board pay increases"; "an all-embracing definition"; "blanket sanctions against human-rights violators"; "an invention with broad applications"; "a panoptic study of Soviet nationality"- T.G.Winner; "granted him wide powers"
Usage examples
  • It was not extensive.
  • There was no other dwelling near, in that direction; and the prospect it commanded was very extensive.
  • At the side farthest from the town, close under a bluff, there was an extensive marah, or sheepcot, ages old.
  • This was an extensive and magnificent structure, the creation of the prince's own eccentric yet august taste.
  • The scene of this labor was Thrace, an extensive region lying between the AEgean Sea, the Euxine or Black Sea, and the Danube.
  • In 1785 the author's father, who had an interest in extensive tracts of land in this wilderness, arrived with a party of surveyors.
  • His extensive capacity enabled him to form the most enlarged projects: his enterprising genius was not dismayed with the boldest and most dangerous.
  • Further than that Alethia's information did not go; her imagination, founded on her extensive knowledge of the people one met in novels, had to supply the gaps.
  • This Chronicle still subsists, and from what I observed, when I was abroad, has a more extensive circulation upon the Continent than any of the English newspapers.
  • In front of the schools, which were extensive and stone-built, grew two enormous beeches with smooth mouse-coloured trunks, as such trees will only grow on chalk uplands.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Introduction to viruses, License CC BY-SA 4.0
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2. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording The Beatles, License CC BY-SA 4.0
3. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Service-oriented architecture, License CC BY-SA 4.0
4. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Jurassic, License CC BY-SA 4.0
5. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Truthiness, License CC BY-SA 4.0
6. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Museum of Bad Art, License CC BY-SA 4.0
7. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Paul L. Kirk, License CC BY-SA 4.0
8. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Edward VII, License CC BY-SA 4.0
9. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Hurricane Dog (1950), License CC BY-SA 4.0