Definition of comprehensive in English:
comprehensive
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adjective
1Complete; including all or nearly all elements or aspects of something.
‘a comprehensive list of sources’- ‘From a comprehensive list of nearly 1,600 daily newspapers, 500 newspapers were selected using standard interval sampling.’
- ‘The Guide contains a comprehensive list of businesses and services in the town and contains a very useful street map of Ballinrobe.’
- ‘Its Explore Kodiak guide has a comprehensive list of outfitters and free activities.’
- ‘More and more colleges and universities are developing comprehensive diversity plans to guide changes in campus policies and procedures.’
- ‘Currently the only possible source for a comprehensive list of travellers, as we've already established, lies in the carriers' passenger lists.’
- ‘The training videos contain comprehensive information on all aspects of good environmental practice at farm level, presented in an interesting and stimulating manner.’
- ‘It called for constituting a committee to conduct a comprehensive review of all aspects of the party's performance and make recommendations for future plan of action.’
- ‘That was one element within a comprehensive report.’
- ‘Both states signed their treaties claiming they were elements of a comprehensive peace.’
- ‘Though a large volume of literature is available on the issues discussed in the book it is a comprehensive treatise on related aspects of food and nutrition and the editors have taken pain to deal with every aspect.’
- ‘This comprehensive volume of nearly 600 poems, many accompanied by the Spanish original, bursts with evocative images.’
- ‘This will include the development of a comprehensive manual for all aspects of driver licencing including that of driving schools and instructors.’
- ‘The entire nightmare could have been avoided had he kept comprehensive documentation of his dealings with the plaintiffs.’
- ‘But these are unavoidable aspects of a comprehensive exposition of any subject.’
- ‘I thought he was fairly comprehensive in his coverage of various issues.’
- ‘The documentary shows its age, but it provides a fairly comprehensive overview of the legendary director.’
- ‘Seeing the problems his students faced, Mr. Silman has created the first comprehensive strategic guide in dictionary form.’
- ‘The result is the first comprehensive analysis of preventable patient deaths linked to infections within 5,810 hospitals nationally.’
- ‘Some sites offer links to others and through such links a reasonably comprehensive list can be obtained.’
- ‘Take a peek at our comprehensive guide to dining out in the city.’
diverse, diversified, wide, broad, broad-based, eclectic, indiscriminateView synonyms- 1.1Of large content or scope; wide-ranging.‘a comprehensive collection of photographs’
- ‘Its thorough research and comprehensive scope should prove invaluable for anyone seriously interested in the subject.’
- ‘The design phase is comprehensive in scope, tackling everything from content and design to functionality and user interface.’
- ‘The Senate Inquiry into mandatory sentencing was broad-ranging, thorough and comprehensive in terms of scope and evidence.’
- ‘This is a wide ranging and comprehensive survey of children and the experience of childhood.’
- ‘Making broad scope, comprehensive documentaries about an event the magnitude of World War II is a tall order, often with less than satisfactory results.’
- ‘Because it is comprehensive in scope and specific in detail, it can eliminate the ambiguities that exist in most partnerships.’
- ‘The volume does not cover all issues in detail and it was not intended to be comprehensive in scope.’
- ‘Sir Gawaine's British West Indies collection is part of a wider comprehensive collection of stamps from Great Britain and the British Empire.’
- ‘The authors make no claims for completeness, indeed are transparent about the gaps, yet this book is impressively comprehensive in scale, scope and analytical range.’
- ‘Yet, inevitably, the comprehensive scope of Ackroyd's book requires that he sometimes sacrifice elaboration for example, depth for breadth.’
- ‘Naval historians would do well to familiarize themselves with his style of narrative, his comprehensive coverage, and scope of research.’
- ‘Unbelievable in its comprehensive scope, the vast material supports a view of Africa as the archetypal artistic environment.’
- ‘Although debate on the measure was fairly abbreviated, the resulting measure was comprehensive in both its scope and design.’
- ‘Their collaborative research is quite comprehensive in its scope.’
- ‘It combines a comprehensive scope, concisely written entries and the best in current biblical scholarship.’
- ‘The Convention is extraordinarily comprehensive in scope.’
- ‘This presentation is comprehensive in scope but lacks much historical analysis.’
- ‘The Guardian's more comprehensive survey also came up with far higher job losses than the government admits.’
- ‘Their collaborative research is quite comprehensive in its scope.’
- ‘The volume does not cover all issues in detail and it was not intended to be comprehensive in scope.’
inclusive, all-inclusive, completeView synonyms - 1.2(of automobile insurance) providing coverage for most risks, including damage to the policyholder's own vehicle.‘comprehensive and collision insurance’
- ‘Some cost items will differ for different vehicle types, notably comprehensive insurance, but in the main it is reasonable to use fleet size.’
- ‘Is it possible to take out one insurance policy, preferably comprehensive, that would cover us all to drive either of the cars?’
- ‘The good news for motorists with fully comprehensive insurance is that they are covered if their car has water damage.’
- ‘He agreed only after ensuring that he was covered under the defendant's comprehensive car insurance policy.’
- ‘For example, a 56-year-old driving a 2001 Toyota Avensis received a quote of €735 from Axa for comprehensive insurance.’
- ‘He thought that all drivers should be made to have fully comprehensive insurance and that driving jobs should be given to local people.’
- ‘This insurance is designed to protect motorists from payout shortfalls that could arise between the original price paid for a car and the comprehensive insurance payout in the case of loss.’
- ‘It must be comprehensive insurance, because you're driving someone else's car.’
- ‘If you happen to own a posh motor, or are particularly accident-prone, then you might consider taking out fully comprehensive insurance.’
- ‘Motorists with fully comprehensive insurance mistakenly think they have insurance for the contents of their car along with the car itself.’
- ‘Even those who have fully comprehensive motor insurance while driving in the UK need to check, as most policies only offer third-party cover on the continent.’
- ‘The cost of comprehensive motor insurance has almost doubled, rising by 86%.’
- ‘A typical comprehensive and collision policy will usually only cover the fair market value for your car.’
- 1.3US An examination testing a student's command of a special field of knowledge.‘The reality of life in Wereilu and in Ethiopia is that few students are able to pass the comprehensive examinations with a high enough mark to continue with tertiary education.’
- ‘Currently in our program, a senior comprehensive examination is given, but is not required for either graduation or as eligibility to take a national certification examination.’
- ‘As an example, one student who by his own admission did not study for, nor pass the senior comprehensive examination, took a job that required that he have national certification.’
- ‘Unlike UMMC, 16 of the 40 respondents stated that passage of the comprehensive examination was a requirement for graduation.’
- ‘A master's degree usually involves one to two years of coursework, a comprehensive examination over that coursework, and in some cases, a thesis.’
- ‘One student in a special AAC&U Annual Meeting focus group told that she had even opted to take one of her comprehensive examinations in pedagogy.’
2 archaic Relating to understanding.
Pronunciation
noun
Britishin full comprehensive schoolA secondary school catering to children of all abilities from a given area.
‘he trained as an accountant after leaving the local comprehensive’- ‘when I was 14 I was at comprehensive’
- ‘About 12,000 pupils went on to study at the same 400 selective grammar schools or top-rated comprehensives.’
- ‘The majority of these producers did not attend fee-paying schools; more went to grammar schools or comprehensives.’
- ‘City academies - independent comprehensives part-funded by the private sector - and specialist schools will not be introduced north of the Border.’
- ‘The snuffing out of that option, by the ideologically driven determination to replace grammar schools with comprehensives, was a quite explicit piece of social engineering.’
- ‘All but one of the top 26 state schools nationally were comprehensives.’
- ‘Some of us were going to private schools or comprehensives, so we didn't have to take it.’
- ‘In England they have been transforming failed comprehensives into specialist schools and city academies.’
- ‘We do not argue that public comprehensives jettison their professional and technical programs.’
- ‘‘There is no point at which grammar schools exceed the performance of comprehensives at teaching able pupils,’ he said at the time.’
- ‘In the latest set of school league tables, comprehensives are getting results as good as or higher than grammar schools in the ‘value added’ part of the table.’
- ‘As today's exclusive survey shows, a massive gulf separates Bradford's highest-flying comprehensives from those with lower scores.’
- ‘People power has forced councillors to rethink plans to change school catchment areas and bar scores of pupils from their local comprehensives.’
- ‘About half went to fee-paying schools and the rest to state grammars and comprehensives.’
- ‘A Guardian leak suggests that one of the most scandalous proposals, letting ‘public’ schools take over comprehensives, may be restricted to London.’
- ‘Plans to rebuild two other comprehensives - Beckfoot and Grange Technology College - plus new special schools will be included in a ‘second wave’ bid to be put in over the next few weeks.’
- ‘We should be defending mixed local comprehensives.’
- ‘Laidlaw has given assurances that his schools would remain comprehensives and would take everyone from the catchment area.’
- ‘More recently, he has declared opposition to comprehensives and support for the return of grammar schools.’
- ‘More than one in five teachers who taught some maths in comprehensives had nothing better than an A-Level in the subject, and the proportion fell to just over half in the case of RE.’
- ‘Instead, many went to council-run comprehensives and attended newer universities or none.’
Pronunciation
Origin
Early 17th century from French compréhensif, -ive, from late Latin comprehensivus, from the verb comprehendere ‘grasp mentally’.
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