more extensive

ADJECTIVE

far-reaching, thorough

Synonyms

STRONGEST

broad comprehensive considerable expanded huge large large-scale lengthy major pervasive protracted sweeping vast voluminous wide-ranging

WEAK

across the board all-encompassing all-inclusive big blanket boundless capacious commodious comprising extended far-flung general great hefty inclusive indiscriminate long prevalent roomy scopic scopious sizable spacious unexclusive universal unrestricted wall to wall wholesale wide widespread

Antonyms

STRONGEST

exclusive insignificant limited little miniature narrow slight small tiny unimportant

WEAK

restricted short uncomprehensive

Example Sentences

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Mary Ziegler, a professor at the UC Davis School of Law and an expert on American parental rights laws, said the ruling was “arguably significantly more extensive than the Supreme Court has spelled out.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 23, 2026

The next phase involves more extensive animal studies to determine how stable the reshaped cornea remains over time and whether the treatment is safe in living tissue.

From Science Daily • May 28, 2026

Internet monitor Netblocks noted that, as connectivity was restored, there were signs of "more extensive filtering" than it had observed during January's crackdown.

From BBC • May 27, 2026

For economists looking on, the budgetary measures present a ray of hope that a more extensive reform agenda is taking shape—one that will boost the economy’s ability to grow faster without fueling inflation.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026

“I suspect without that precaution there would have been more extensive damage.”

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern