extensive
part of speech
adjective (extensive, more extensive, most extensive)
meaning for a pupil
1) Covering a large area. tree →
2) Large in amount or very thorough and detailed. tree →
3) (farming) Using a lot of land with little work or money per field, opposite of intensive farming. tree →
sense in the lessons
It tells the reader that something is big or wide-ranging: extensive damage, extensive research, extensive gardens. In geography, extensive farming means big farms with few workers per area, like sheep stations. Phrases: extensive knowledge, extensive damage, extensive grounds.
examples
- The storm caused extensive damage to the town. tree →
- The castle has extensive gardens with a maze. tree →
- She has an extensive collection of shells. tree →
- The scientists did extensive tests on the new medicine. tree →
- His extensive knowledge of dinosaurs amazed the class. tree →
- The fire spread over an extensive area of forest. tree →
- Sheep stations in Australia are a kind of extensive farming. tree →
- The governor then led the Prince to a wild and extensive plain where the grass grew high and in great abundance. tree →
note
Adverb: extensively. Related: extend, extension, extent. Opposite: limited, slight; in farming, intensive. It does not mean «expensive» — watch the spelling: exTENsive vs exPENsive.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «extensive» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.