rozsiahle

Rozsiahle is a Slovak adjective meaning extensive or wide-ranging. It is the neuter singular form of the base adjective rozsiahly; masculine and feminine forms are rozsiahly and rozsiahla, respectively. The word describes something with large extent, scope, or complexity, such as territory, knowledge, or plans, and can be used figuratively to denote broad implications or wide reach. In usage, it often occurs before neuter singular nouns in formal writing, for example: rozsiahle územie (extensive territory), rozsiahle poznatky (extensive knowledge), rozsiahle dôsledky (broad consequences). The degree can be intensified with the comparative rozsiahlejší and the superlative najrozsiahlejší. Etymologically it derives from prefix roz- plus siahť (to reach), conveying the sense of stretching out. The term is common in Slovak-language journalism, geography, history, and public discourse, and has cognate forms in Czech (rozsáhlé/rozsáhlý). See also: rozsiahly, veľký, rozsah (scope).