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| Main Entry: | extended |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lengthened |
| Synonyms: | elongate, elongated, enlarged, lengthy, long, prolonged, spread, continued, drawn-out, protracted, spread out, stretched out, unfolded, unfurled, very long |
| Antonyms: | condensed, cut, reduced, abbreviated, abridged, compressed, contracted, curtailed, lessened, shortened |
| Main Entry: | extended |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | widespread, comprehensive |
| Synonyms: | broad, enlarged, expansive, extensive, far-flung, far-reaching, spread, sweeping, thorough, wide, expanded, large-scale, outspread, scopic, scopious |
| Antonyms: | narrow, reduced, abbreviated, abridged |
| Main Entry: | extend |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make larger, longer |
| Synonyms: | add to, aggrandize, amplify, augment, beef up*, boost, broaden, carry on, continue, crane, develop, dilate, drag one's feet, drag out, draw, draw out, elongate, enhance, enlarge, expand, fan out, go on, heighten, increase, last, lengthen, let out, magnify, mantle, multiply, open, pad, prolong, prolongate, protract, run on, spin out, spread, spread out, stall, stretch, string out, supplement, take, unfold, unfurl, unroll, widen |
| Antonyms: | abridge, condense, contract, curtail, cut, decrease, lessen, lower, shorten, shrink |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | extend |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | offer |
| Synonyms: | accord, advance, allocate, allot, award, bestow, confer, donate, give, grant, hold out, impart, pose, present, proffer, submit, tender, yield, bring forward, place at disposal, put forth, put forward, reach out, stretch out |
| Antonyms: | hold, keep, maintain, take back |
| Main Entry: | capacious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ample, extensive |
| Synonyms: | abundant, broad, comfortable, commodious, comprehensive, expansive, extended, generous, liberal, plentiful, roomy, sizable, spacious, substantial, vast, voluminous, wide, dilatable, distensible, expandable |
| Antonyms: | cramped, small, tiny, squeezed |
| Main Entry: | continuous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | constant, unending |
| Synonyms: | connected, consecutive, endless, everlasting, extended, interminable, perpetual, prolonged, regular, repeated, stable, steady, timeless, unbroken, unceasing, undivided, unfaltering, uninterrupted, continued, day and night, for ever and ever, looped, no end of, no end to, on a treadmill |
| Notes: | continually means 'repeatedly, with breaks in between' and continuously means 'without interruption, in an unbroken stream'; continual typically refers to time while continuous can refer to space as well as time |
| Antonyms: | completed, discontinuous, ending, finished, halting, intermittent, interrupted, sporadic, stopping, ceasing |
| Main Entry: | descriptive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | explanatory |
| Synonyms: | characteristic, circumstantial, clear, definitive, detailed, eloquent, expository, expressive, extended, graphic, illuminating, illustrative, indicative, lifelike, narrative, picturesque, specific, vivid, anecdotic, characterizing, classificatory, delineative, depictive, describing, designating, explicative, identifying, illuminative, interpretive, particularized, pictorial, revealing, true to life |
| Antonyms: | confusing, cursory, undescriptive |
| Main Entry: | elongated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lengthened |
| Synonyms: | extended, increased, prolonged, dragged out, drawn out, expanded, made longer, outstretched, protracted, stretched, strung out |
| Main Entry: | extensive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | far-reaching, thorough |
| Synonyms: | all-inclusive, big, blanket*, boundless, broad, capacious, commodious, comprehensive, considerable, extended, far-flung*, general, great, hefty, huge, inclusive, indiscriminate, large, lengthy, long, major, pervasive, prevalent, roomy, sizable, spacious, sweeping, universal, unrestricted, vast, voluminous, wholesale, wide, widespread, across the board, all-encompassing, comprising, expanded, large-scale, protracted, scopic, scopious, unexclusive, wall to wall, wide-ranging |
| Antonyms: | limited, narrow, restricted, short, uncomprehensive |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | inflated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | exaggerated |
| Synonyms: | aureate, bloated, bombastic, diffuse, distended, enlarged, extended, filled, flatulent, flowery, fustian, grandiloquent, grown, magniloquent, ostentatious, overblown, pompous, pretentious, prolix, puffed, ranting, rhetorical, showy, spread, swollen, tumescent, tumid, turgid, verbose, windy, wordy, aggrandized, amplified, augmented, dilated, dropsical, euphuistic, magnified, overestimated, pumped up, rhapsodical, stretched, surcharged |
| Antonyms: | deflated, shrunken |
| Main Entry: | more |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | additional, greater |
| Synonyms: | also, and, another, besides, else, extended, extra, farther, fresh, further, higher, increased, innumerable, likewise, major, new, numerous, other, spare, supplementary, added, aggrandized, amassed, augmented, bounteous, deeper, enhanced, exceeding, expanded, heavier, in addition, larger, massed, more than that, over and above, too many, wider |
| Antonyms: | less, fewer |
| Main Entry: | spacious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extensive, expansive |
| Synonyms: | ample, big, boundless, broad, capacious, cavernous, comfortable, commodious, endless, enormous, extended, generous, great, huge, immense, infinite, large, limitless, roomy, sizable, vast, voluminous, wide, widespread, uncrowded |
| Antonyms: | cramped, crowded, small |
| Main Entry: | enlarged |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | increased |
| Synonyms: | developed, distended, exaggerated, extended, inflated, spread, swollen, tumid, turgid, added to, aggrandized, amplified, augmented, blown up, broadened, caricatured, dilated, elaborated, expanded, filled out, intensified, lengthened, magnified, stretched, widened |
| Antonyms: | reduced, shrunken, contracted |
| Main Entry: | broad |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wide physically |
| Synonyms: | ample, capacious, deep, expansive, extended, extensive, full, generous, immense, large, roomy, spacious, squat, thick, vast, voluminous, widespread, latitudinous, outspread, outstretched, splay |
| Antonyms: | narrow, small |
| Main Entry: | diffuse |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | spread out |
| Synonyms: | broadcast, catholic, diluted, distributed, extended, general, prevalent, scattered, separated, thin, universal, widespread, circulated, dispersed, disseminated, expanded, propagated, radiated, strewn, unconcentrated |
| Antonyms: | compact, concentrated, confined, limited, restricted, compressed |
| Main Entry: | flat |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | level, smooth |
| Synonyms: | deflated, depressed, empty, even, extended, fallen, flush, horizontal, low, pancake*, plane, prone, prostrate, reclining, recumbent, supine, unbroken, collapsed, complanate, decumbent, laid low, oblate, outstretched, planar, planate, procumbent, punctured, splay, spread out, tabular |
| Antonyms: | broken, elevated, raised, rough, rounded, rugged, uneven |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | great |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very large |
| Synonyms: | abundant, ample, big, big league*, bulky, bull, colossal, considerable, decided, enormous, excessive, extended, extensive, extravagant, extreme, fat, gigantic, grievous, high, huge, humongous, husky, immense, inordinate, jumbo*, lengthy, long, major league, mammoth, numerous, prodigious, prolonged, pronounced, strong, stupendous, terrible, titanic*, towering, tremendous, vast, voluminous, mondo, oversize, protracted |
| Antonyms: | few, little, miniature, minute, short, small |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | open |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unfastened, unclosed |
| Synonyms: | accessible, agape, airy, ajar, bare, clear, cleared, expansive, exposed, extended, extensive, free, gaping, naked, navigable, passable, patent, removed, rent, rolling, spacious, stripped, susceptible, uncovered, unlocked, unobstructed, wide, dehiscent, disclosed, emptied, expanded, made passable, patulous, peeled, revealed, ringent, spread out, unbarred, unblocked, unbolted, unburdened, uncluttered, unfolded, unfurled, unimpeded, unplugged, unsealed, unshut, unstopped, vacated, yawning |
| Antonyms: | closed, fastened, locked, shut |
| Main Entry: | prominent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sticking out; conspicuous |
| Synonyms: | bulging, extended, eye-catching, flashy, hilly, jutting, marked, noticeable, obtrusive, obvious, outstanding, projecting, pronounced, raised, relieved, remarkable, rough, rugged, salient, signal, striking, unmistakable, arresting, beetling, easily seen, embossed, extrusive, hanging out, in the foreground, protruding, protrusive, protuberant, shooting out, standing out, to the fore |
| Antonyms: | depressed, inconspicuous, invisible, sunken, obscured |
| Main Entry: | broad |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extensive |
| Synonyms: | all-inclusive, comprehensive, copious, encyclopedic, expansive, extended, far-flung, far-reaching, general, inclusive, sweeping, ubiquitous, universal, unlimited, wide, widespread, all-embracing, nonspecific, scopic, undetailed, wide-ranging |
| Antonyms: | narrow, small |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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