English Explanatory Dictionary

comprehensive

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj

Broadly or completely covering; including a large proportion of something.

noun

A comprehensive school.

Pronunciation

/ˌkɒm.pɹɪˈhɛn.sɪv/ /ˌkɑm.pɹəˈhɛn.sɪv/ en-us-comprehensive.ogg en-au-comprehensive.ogg

Word forms

comprehensive more comprehensive most comprehensive comprehensives

Etymology

Borrowed from late Middle French compréhensif, from Late Latin comprehēnsīvus, from Latin comprehendō.

Synonyms

exhaustive thorough all-encompassing wide-ranging sweeping across-the-board all around all-embracing blanket broad thick comprehensive overall sound

Antonyms

incomprehensive focused limited

Related words

comprehend comprehensible comprehension generic

Derived words

comprehensive cover comprehensive coverage comprehensive distancing comprehensive insurance comprehensively comprehensiveness comprehensivisation comprehensivity comprehensivization comprehensivize noncomprehensive uncomprehensive

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