Main entry: broad, blanket, extensive, encompassing, panoptic, wide, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, across-the-board
Definition: broad in scope or content
Usage: 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
Main entry: extended, extensive
Definition: large in spatial extent or range or scope or quantity
Usage: an extensive Roman settlement in northwest England; extended farm lands; surgeons with extended experience; they suffered extensive damage
Main entry: extensive
Definition: of agriculture; increasing productivity by using large areas with minimal outlay and labor
Usage: producing wheat under extensive conditions; agriculture of the extensive type