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| 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: | across-the-board |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | broad in scope |
| Synonyms: | all, all-inclusive, blanket, broad, complete, comprehensive, encompassing, everything, extensive, global, sweeping, total, wide, widespread, all-embracing, all-encompassing, broad in content, including all categories, including all members, panoptic |
| Main Entry: | ample |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | more than necessary, sufficient |
| Synonyms: | abounding, abundant, big, bountiful, broad, capacious, commodious, copious, enough, expansive, extensive, full, galore, generous, great, heavy, large, lavish, liberal, plentiful, plenty, profuse, rich, roomy, spacious, spare, substantial, unrestricted, voluminous, wide, bounteous, no end, plenteous |
| Antonyms: | insufficient, meager, not enough |
| Main Entry: | catholic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | all-embracing, general |
| Synonyms: | all-inclusive, broad-minded, charitable, comprehensive, cosmic, cosmopolitan, diffuse, eclectic, ecumenical, extensive, generic, global, inclusive, indeterminate, liberal, open-minded, planetary, receptive, tolerant, universal, unprejudiced, whole, wide, large-scale, unbigoted, unsectarian, world-wide |
| Notes: | Catholic means of or relating to or supporting the Roman Catholic Church while catholic means of broad or liberal scope Catholic means of or relating to or supporting the Roman Catholic Church while catholic means of broad or liberal scope |
| Antonyms: | narrow, narrow-minded, specific |
| Main Entry: | commodious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ample, spacious |
| Synonyms: | big, capacious, comfortable, convenient, expansive, extensive, large, loose, roomy, wide |
| Antonyms: | confined, cramped, inconvenient, small, uncomfortable, squeezed |
| Main Entry: | comprehensive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inclusive |
| Synonyms: | absolute, all-inclusive, blanket, broad, catholic, compendious, complete, discursive, encyclopedic, exhaustive, expansive, extensive, far-reaching, full, general, global, infinite, overall, sweeping, thorough, umbrella, whole, wide, widespread, across the board, all-embracing, comprising, containing, encircling, in depth, lock stock and barrel, of great scope, synoptic, the big picture, the whole shebang, the works, wall-to-wall |
| Antonyms: | exclusive, particular, selective, specific, incomprehensive |
| Main Entry: | copious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | abundant |
| Synonyms: | ample, bountiful, extensive, exuberant, full, galore, generous, heavy, lavish, liberal, lush, luxuriant, overflowing, plentiful, plenty, profuse, prolix, replete, rich, verbose, wordy, a mess of, alive with, aplenty, bounteous, coming out of ears, crawling with, no end, plenteous, superabundant, thick with |
| Antonyms: | lacking, meager, needy, poor, rare, scarce, wanting, needing |
| Main Entry: | elaborate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intricate; involved |
| Synonyms: | busy, careful, complex, complicated, detailed, elegant, exact, extensive, extravagant, fancy, fussy, imposing, knotty, labored, labyrinthine, luxurious, minute, ornate, ostentatious, overdone, overworked, painstaking, perfected, plush, posh, precise, prodigious, refined, showy, skillful, sophisticated, studied, thorough, decorated, embellished, garnished, high tech, highly wrought, many-faceted, ornamented, with all the extras, with all the options, with bells and whistles |
| Antonyms: | general, normal, plain, regular, simple, uncomplicated, usual, unelaborate, uninvolved |
| Main Entry: | elephantine |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | huge |
| Synonyms: | big, colossal, enormous, extensive, gargantuan, giant, gigantic, grand, great, humongous, immense, jumbo*, large, mammoth, massive, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, titanic, towering, behemothic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | encyclopedic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | comprehensive |
| Synonyms: | all-inclusive, broad, catholic, complete, discursive, exhaustive, extensive, general, thorough, universal, vast, widespread, all-embracing, all-encompassing, thorough-going, wide-ranging |
| Antonyms: | brief, incomplete, summary, uncomprehensive |
| Main Entry: | exhaustive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | all-inclusive, complete |
| Synonyms: | all-out, catholic, comprehensive, encyclopedic, extensive, far-reaching, full, full-blown, full-scale, in-depth, intensive, out-and-out*, profound, radical, sweeping, thorough, thoroughgoing, total, all-embracing, all-encompassing, embracive, from A to Z, full-dress, no stone unturned, the word, whole-hog |
| Antonyms: | incomplete, unfinished, excluding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | far-flung |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | widespread |
| Synonyms: | comprehensive, distant, extensive, far-reaching, global, long, remote, spacious, widespread, far-extending, far-going, far-spread, far-stretched, wide-extending, wide-ranging, wide-reaching, wide-stretching, widely distributed, without end |
| Main Entry: | far-reaching |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | broad, widespread |
| Synonyms: | extensive, important, momentous, pervasive, significant, sweeping, wide, far-ranging |
| Antonyms: | incomprehensible, insignificant, narrow, trivial, unimportant |
| Main Entry: | full-scale |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | total, all-out |
| Synonyms: | comprehensive, exhaustive, extensive, full-blown*, in-depth, major, proper, sweeping, thorough, thoroughgoing, total, unlimited, all-encompassing, full-dress, full-out, wide-ranging |
| Antonyms: | incomplete, partial, incomprehensive |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hefty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | big, bulky |
| Synonyms: | ample, awkward, beefy*, brawny, burly, colossal, cumbersome, extensive, fat, forceful, heavy, hulking, husky, large, major, massive, muscular, ponderous, powerful, robust, sizable, strapping*, strong, sturdy, substantial, tremendous, unwieldy, vigorous, weighty, large-scale, thumping |
| Antonyms: | slight, small, thin, tiny |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | huge |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extremely large |
| Synonyms: | bulky, colossal, elephantine, enormous, extensive, gargantuan, giant, gigantic, great, gross*, humongous, immeasurable, immense, jumbo, lusty, magnificent, mammoth, massive, mighty, monster*, monstrous*, monumental, mountainous, planetary, prodigious, stupendous, titanic*, towering, tremendous, vast, whopping*, behemothic, cyclopean, leviathan, mondo, outsize, oversize, walloping |
| Antonyms: | dwarf, little, miniature, minute, small, teeny, tiny |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hulking |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | massive |
| Synonyms: | big, bulky, clumsy, colossal, cumbersome, elephantine, enormous, extensive, gargantuan, gigantic, grand, great, heavy, hefty, huge, immense, imposing, large, lumbering, mammoth, monumental, solid, titanic, towering, tremendous, unwieldy, weighty |
| Main Entry: | immeasurable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | infinite, incalculable |
| Synonyms: | bottomless, boundless, countless, endless, extensive, immense, indefinite, inestimable, inexhaustible, large, limitless, umpteen, unfathomable, unlimited, vast, alive with, crawling with, illimitable, jillion, measureless, no end of, no end to, unbounded, uncountable, unmeasurable, unreckonable, zillion |
| Antonyms: | bounded, calculable, finite, limited, measurable |
| Main Entry: | immense |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extremely large |
| Synonyms: | Brobdingnagian*, boundless, colossal, elephantine, endless, enormous, eternal, extensive, giant, gigantic, great, gross, huge, humongous, immeasurable, infinite, interminable, jumbo*, limitless, mammoth, massive, mighty, monstrous, monumental, prodigious, stupendous, super, titanic*, tremendous, vast, barn door, illimitable, measureless, unbounded |
| Antonyms: | little, miniature, minute, small, teeny, tiny |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | indiscriminate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | random, chaotic |
| Synonyms: | aimless, assorted, broad, careless, confused, desultory, extensive, general, haphazard, heterogeneous, hit-or-miss*, jumbled, miscellaneous, mixed, mongrel, motley*, multifarious, promiscuous, purposeless, shallow, spot, superficial, sweeping, uncritical, unplanned, varied, variegated, wholesale*, wide, designless, imperceptive, mingled, unconsidered, undiscriminating, unmethodical, unselective, unsystematic |
| Antonyms: | chosen, critical, definite, discriminatory, methodical, particular, selective, specific, systematic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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