extended

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• (a) fully extended or stretched forth; "an extended telescope"; "his extended legs reached almost across the small room"; "refused to accept the extended hand"
• (s) 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"
• (s) great in range or scope; "an extended vocabulary"; "surgeons with extended experience"; "extensive examples of picture writing"; "suffered extensive damage"; "a wide selection"
• (s) 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"
• (s) beyond the literal or primary sense; "`hot off the press'' shows an extended sense of `hot''"
• (s) large in spatial extent or range; "an extensive Roman settlement in northwest England"; "extended farm lands"

extended Synonyms

• drawn-out
• elongated
• extended
• extensive
• lengthened
• lengthy
• prolonged
• protracted
• wide