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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | broad, comprehensive |
| Synonyms: | all-embracing, ample, big, dilatant, elastic, expanding, expansile, extensive, far-reaching, great, inclusive, large, scopic, scopious, stretching, thorough, unrepressed, unsuppressed, voluminous, wide, wide-ranging, widespread |
| Antonyms: | limited, narrow |
| Main Entry: | extending |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | reaching |
| Synonyms: | approaching, continual, continuing, continuous, endless, going on, lengthening, perpetual, ranging, spanning, spreading, stretching |
| Main Entry: | growing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | increasing |
| Synonyms: | amplifying, animate, augmenting, budding, burgeoning, crescent, crescive, developing, dilating, enlarging, expanding, flourishing, fructifying, germinating, living, maturing, mushrooming, pullulating, spreading, sprouting, stretching, swelling, thriving, viable, waxing |
| Antonyms: | lessening, shrinking, withering |
| Main Entry: | reaching |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extending to a point |
| Synonyms: | embracing, encompassing, ending at, going up to, joining, meeting, spanning, spreading to, stretching, touching |
| Main Entry: | reaching |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extending a part of the body |
| Synonyms: | extending, feeling for, grasping, lunging, making for, outstretching, straining, stretching, touching |
| Main Entry: | rubber |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | elastic |
| Synonyms: | bouncy, buoyant, ductile, flexible, lively, resilient, rubbery, soft, stretchable, stretching, stretchy |
| Main Entry: | overlong |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | long |
| Synonyms: | continued, deep, distant, dragging, drawn out, drawn-out, elongate, elongated, enduring, enlarged, expanded, extensive, far-off, far-reaching, faraway, gangling, great, high*, lanky, lasting, lengthened, lengthy, lingering, lofty, long-drawn-out, longish, outstretched, prolonged, protracted, rangy, remote, running, spread out, spun out, stretch, stretched, stretching, stringy, sustained, tall, towering |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | protracted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | long |
| Synonyms: | continued, deep, distant, dragging, drawn out, drawn-out, elongate, elongated, enduring, enlarged, expanded, extensive, far-off, far-reaching, faraway, gangling, great, high*, lanky, lasting, lengthened, lengthy, lingering, lofty, long-drawn-out, longish, outstretched, overlong, prolonged, rangy, remote, running, spread out, spun out, stretch, stretched, stretching, stringy, sustained, tall, towering |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | protractile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extensible |
| Synonyms: | approaching, continual, continuing, continuous, endless, expansible, expansile, extendible, extensile, going on, lengthening, perpetual, ranging, spanning, spreading, stretch, stretchable, stretching |
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