Extent
Extent noun - A wide space or area.
Usage example: the seemingly endless extent of the windswept prairies
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Synonyms for Extent
Reach is a synonym for extent in place topic. In some cases you can use "Reach" instead a noun "Extent", when it comes to topics like range, size, territory, hearing.
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| good | good extent | good reach |
| full | full extent | full reach |
| equal | equal extent | equal reach |
| better | better extent | better reach |
| Other adjectives: similar, considerable, small, actual, massive, large, great, enormous, huge, impressive, horrible, incredible, limited, significant, ridiculous, greater, maximum, greatest, different. | ||
Both words in one sentence
- Usually justified to an extent in the original Ben 10 series, where most invasions are stopped by Ben before they could actually reach a large scale (such as the Great One in "The Big Tick," or the Mycelium in "Camp Fear").
Source: Easily Thwarted Alien Invasion - Vajra Singh forces everyone to cooperate to a limited extent until they reach the Heart, at which point it's implicit that all bets are off.
Source: Literature / Heart of Ice - Subverted in Halo, where the UNSC frag grenade has the largest range of any grenade, being capable of draining your shields from a fairly long range; Halo: Reach took it up to such an extent that players accused it of being unrealistic, nicknaming them "mini-nukes".
Source: Concussion Frags
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Reach and Extent. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/extent/reach
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