Word Meanings - EXTENSIVELY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To a great extent; widely; largely; as, a story is extensively circulated.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EXTENSIVELY)

• Broadcast
• Scattered abroad
• dispersed
• profusely
• unsparingly
• indiscriminately
• injudiciously
• extensively

Related words: (words related to EXTENSIVELY)

• DISPERSION
  The separation of light into its different colored rays, arising from their different refrangibilities. Dispersion of the optic axes , the separation of the optic axes in biaxial crystals, due to the fact that the axial angle has different values
• BROADCAST
  1. Cast or dispersed in all directions, as seed from the hand in sowing; widely diffused. 2. Scattering in all directions ; -- opposed to planting in hills, or rows.
• DISPERSED
  Scattered. -- Dis*pers"ed*ly, adv. -- Dis*pers"ed*ness, n. Dispersed harmony , harmony in which the tones composing the chord are widely separated, as by an octave or more.
• EXTENSIVELY
  To a great extent; widely; largely; as, a story is extensively circulated.
• SCATTERLING
  One who has no fixed habitation or residence; a vagabond. "Foreign scatterlings." Spenser.
• SCATTER-BRAIN
  A giddy or thoughtless person; one incapable of concentration or attention.
• DISPERSE
  1. To scatter abroad; to drive to different parts; to distribute; to diffuse; to spread; as, the Jews are dispersed among all nations. The lips of the wise disperse knowledge. Prov. xv. 7. Two lions, in the still, dark night, A herd of
• SCATTERGOOD
  One who wastes; a spendthrift.
• INJUDICIOUSLY
  In an injudicious manner.
• DISPERSAL
  The act or result of dispersing or scattering; dispersion. Darwin.
• DISPERSER
  One that disperses.
• ABROAD
  1. At large; widely; broadly; over a wide space; as, a tree spreads its branches abroad. The fox roams far abroad. Prior. 2. Without a certain confine; outside the house; away from one's abode; as, to walk abroad. I went to St. James',
• PROFUSELY
  In a profuse manner.
• SCATTERING
  Going or falling in various directions; not united or agregated; divided among many; as, scattering votes.
• SCATTER
  Etym: 1. To strew about; to sprinkle around; to throw down loosely; to deposit or place here and there, esp. in an open or sparse order. And some are scattered all the floor about. Chaucer. Why should my muse enlarge on Libyan swains,
• DISPERSIVE
  Tending to disperse. Dispersive power , the relative effect of a material in separating the different rays of light by refraction, as when the substance is formed into a prism. -- Dis*pers"ive*ness, n.
• DISPERSONATE
  To deprive of personality or individuality. We multiply; we dispersonate ourselves. Hare.
• SCATTER-BRAINED
  Giddy; thoughtless.
• DISPERSENESS
  Dispersedness.
• SCATTERED
  Irregular in position; having no regular order; as, scattered leaves. -- Scat"tered*ly, adv. -- Scat"tered*ness, n. (more info) 1. Dispersed; dissipated; sprinkled, or loosely spread.
• BESCATTER
  1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser.
• INDISPERSED
  Not dispersed.
• TOSCATTER
  To scatter in pieces; to divide. Chaucer.