Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective So large in scope or content as to include much.
- adjective Marked by or showing extensive understanding.
- noun An examination or series of examinations covering the entire field of major study, given to a student in the final year of undergraduate or graduate study.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Comprehending, including, or embracing much in a comparatively small compass; containing much within narrow limits.
- More specifically Having the quality of comprehending or including a great number of particulars or a wide extent, as of space or time; of large scope; capacious.
- Having the power to comprehend or understand.
- Synonyms and Broad, extensive, large, capacious.
- In logic, intensive; relating to logical comprehension.
- In biology, of a general or synthetic type of structure. See
synthetic . 3. - noun An establishment in which cotton-bales are compressed for transportation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Including much; comprising many things; having a wide scope or a full view.
- adjective Having the power to comprehend or understand many things.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Possessing peculiarities that are characteristic of several diverse groups.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Broadly orcompletely covering ;including a large proportion of something. - noun UK A
comprehensive school .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an intensive examination testing a student's proficiency in some special field of knowledge
- adjective broad in scope
- adjective including all or everything
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The Bush administration tended not to use "comprehensive," a code word for peace between Israel and all its remaining Arab adversaries: the Palestinians, Syria and Lebanon.
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The Bush administration tended not to use "comprehensive," a code word for peace between Israel and all its remaining Arab adversaries: the Palestinians, Syria and Lebanon.
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First, we dropped the word comprehensive from the title of the bill.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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First, we dropped the word comprehensive from the title of the bill.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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First, we dropped the word comprehensive from the title of the bill.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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He uses the term comprehensive immigration reform a lot more often.
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Besides summit diplomacy, he says China will pursue country-specific, region-specific and area-specific diplomacy in what he described as a "comprehensive" and "coordinated way".
Chinese Foreign Relations to Focus on More Active Diplomacy 2011
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Besides summit diplomacy, he says China will pursue country-specific, region-specific and area-specific diplomacy in what he described as a "comprehensive" and "coordinated way".
Chinese Foreign Relations to Focus on More Active Diplomacy 2011
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As a price for this deal — which will likely require Berlin committing to lend more money to weak euro-zone states if needed — Germany wants what it calls a comprehensive agreement aimed at improving the competitiveness of euro-zone countries' economies.
Europe Summit to Focus on Funds Stephen Fidler 2011
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They say APEC will move toward a more concrete vision of the Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific, including what they call comprehensive, high quality liberalization to address "next generation" trade and investment issues.
Touring commented on the word comprehensive
“Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.” - George Washington
December 6, 2010