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Meaning of EXTENDED

Pronunciation:  ik'stendid

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 Definition: 
  1. [adj]  of printers' type; wider than usual for a particular height
  2. [adj]  great in range or scope; "an extended vocabulary"; "surgeons with extended experience"; "extensive examples of picture writing"; "suffered extensive damage"; "a wide selection"
  3. [adj]  large in spatial extent or range; "an extensive Roman settlement in northwest England"; "extended farm lands"
  4. [adj]  beyond the literal or primary sense; "`hot off the press' shows an extended sense of `hot'"
  5. [adj]  fully extended or stretched forth; "an extended telescope"; "his extended legs reached almost across the small room"; "refused to accept the extended hand"
  6. [adj]  drawn out or made longer spatially; "Picasso's elongated Don Quixote"; "lengthened skirts are fashionable this year"; "the extended airport runways can accommodate larger planes"; "a prolonged black line across the page"
  7. [adj]  relatively long in duration; tediously protracted; "a drawn-out argument"; "an extended discussion"; "a lengthy visit from her mother-in-law"; "a prolonged and bitter struggle"; "protracted negotiations"
 
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 Synonyms: big, considerable, drawn-out, elongated, expanded, extensive, figurative, large, lengthened, lengthy, long, nonliteral, outspread, outstretched, prolonged, protracted, rolled out(p), sprawled, sprawling, sprawly, spread, spread-eagle, stretched, stretched out, unrolled, wide
 
 Antonyms: condensed, unextended
 

 

 

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