Comprehensive
[kɒmprɪ'hensɪv] or [,kɑmprɪ'hɛnsɪv]
Definition
(adj.) including all or everything; 'comprehensive coverage'; 'a comprehensive history of the revolution'; 'a comprehensive survey'; 'a comprehensive education' .
(adj.) broad in scope; 'a comprehensive survey of world affairs' .
Checked by Jennie--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Including much; comprising many things; having a wide scope or a full view.
(a.) Having the power to comprehend or understand many things.
(a.) Possessing peculiarities that are characteristic of several diverse groups.
Checker: Newman
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Extensive, wide, broad, large, capacious, full.
Editor: Vito
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Wide, ample, general, extensive, large, broad, all, embracing, generic,significant, capacious, inclusive, compendious, pregnant
ANT:Narrow, restricted, shallow, exclusive, adversative, exceptive
Checker: Luther
Examples
- Mr. Wopsle in a comprehensive black cloak, being descried entering at the turnpike, the gravedigger was admonished in a friendly way, Look out! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- But even his disciples did not grasp the profound and comprehensive significance of that proposal. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It is to Lyell's disciple, Charles Darwin, however, that we turn for our main illustration of the value of travel for comprehensive scientific gen eralization. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Certainly the genius of St. homas Aquinas seems comprehensive enough to embrace all science as we ll as all philosophy from the Christian point of view. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- One comprehensive party platform fusing every interest is impossible and undesirable. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Why then isn't there a budget, a large, comprehensive budget, precise and informing, in which provision is made for beginning to civilize Chicago? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I also planned a great magnetic survey of the East, and I believe it remains the most comprehensive of its kind yet performed. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Mr. Thornton sighed as he took in all this with one of his sudden comprehensive glances. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Great as has been the genius brought to bear on electrical development, there is no other man to whom such a comprehensive tribute could be paid. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It is not subject to the refining and expanding influences of the more accurate and comprehensive material of direct instruction. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- From this day natural philosophy, and particularly chemistry, in the most comprehensive sense of the term, became nearly my sole occupation. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- It makes no claim to be in any sense complete or comprehensive. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- His reckless courage and comprehensive genius brought him into notice. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- It is a commonplace of educational theory that the establishing of character is a comprehensive aim of school instruction and discipline. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Let us look at the question from three points of view—comprehensive points. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
Checked by Edwin