comprehensive
Syllables: com·pre·hen·siveUK/ˌkɒm.pɹɪˈhɛn.sɪv//ˌkɑm.pɹəˈhɛn.sɪv/
comprehensive adjective: broadly or completely covering; including a large proportion of something.
Adjective
comprehensive (comparative more comprehensive, superlative most comprehensive)
- Broadly or completely covering; including a large proportion of something.
- When there are diametrically opposing views on a big issue that concerns millions of people, doing comprehensive research just makes sense.
- Nevertheless, the comprehensive comparative analysis of pumpkin viromes across various geographic regions by NGS remains deficient.2023 August, Batchimeg Togoobat, Nan Wu, Xifeng Wang, Mengji Cao, Zhongtian Xu, “Viromic approach reveals differences in the composition, diversity and relative abundance of pumpkin viruses across...
- Synonyms:
- exhaustive, thorough, all-encompassing, wide-ranging, sweeping, all-around, across-the-board, all around, all-embracing, catholic
Noun
comprehensive (plural comprehensives)
- A comprehensive school.
- Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.2013 July 19, Peter Wilby, “Finland spreads word on schools”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 30
comprehensive meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
comprehensive in Hindi
- broadly or completely covering
- विस्तृत vistŕt, व्यापक vyāpak
comprehensive in Tamil
- broadly or completely covering
- விசாலமான vicālamāṉa
comprehensive in Urdu
- ہمہ گیر, جامع
comprehensive in Bengali
- comprehensive
- ব্যাপক bêpok
More languagesFewer languages
- comprehensive in Telugu
- అమూలాగ్రం amūlāgraṁ
- comprehensive in Malayalam
- സമഗ്രം, സകലതും ഉൾക്കൊള്ളുന്നത്, ഗ്രഹണശക്തിയുളളത്, ധാരണാശക്തിയുള്ളത്
- comprehensive in Kannada
- ವ್ಯಾಪ್ತವಾದ, ವಿಸ್ತಾರವಾದ, ಗ್ರಹಿಸತಕ್ಕ, ಗ್ರಹಿಸಬಲ್ಲ
- comprehensive in Arabic
- شَامِل šāmil, شَامِلَة šāmila
- comprehensive in Indonesian
- komprehensif
- comprehensive in Thai
- รอบด้าน
Examples of comprehensive in a sentence
- This report is certainly not comprehensive; it is more of a "Marketing Division at a glance".
- Nevertheless, the comprehensive comparative analysis of pumpkin viromes across various geographic regions by NGS remains deficient.
- We’re going to break down how to get unshadowbanned on Twitter for you in this comprehensive guide.
Synonyms of comprehensive
- exhaustive
- thorough
- all-encompassing
- wide-ranging
- sweeping
- all-around
- across-the-board
- all around
- all-embracing
- catholic
Antonyms
Forms of comprehensive
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more comprehensive |
| superlative | most comprehensive |
| Noun | |
| plural | comprehensives |
Origin of comprehensive
Borrowed from late Middle French compréhensif, from Late Latin comprehēnsīvus, from Latin comprehendō.
Words formed from comprehensive
Phrases with comprehensive
Questions about comprehensive
- What does comprehensive mean?
- Comprehensive means broadly or completely covering; including a large proportion of something.
- What is comprehensive in Hindi?
- Comprehensive in Hindi is विस्तृत (vistŕt), व्यापक (vyāpak). See Comprehensive meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is comprehensive?
- Comprehensive can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce comprehensive?
- Comprehensive is pronounced /ˌkɒm.pɹɪˈhɛn.sɪv/ (UK).
Words near comprehensive in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: comprehensive (page history and authors); comprehensive (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ব্যাপক (Bengali) (page history and authors); అమూలాగ్రం (Telugu) (page history and authors); comprehensive (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); comprehensive (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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