large-scaleEnglishOxford English Thesauruslarge-scale adjective 1 a large-scale privatization programme: extensive, wide-reaching, wide-ranging, sweeping, broad, far-reaching, wholesale, comprehensive, exhaustive, expansive, mass, nationwide, global, universal. ▷antonyms small-scale, minor. 2 a large-scale map: enlarged, blown-up, magnified, macroscale.large-scale Oxford Dictionary of English