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com·pre·hen·sive  (kmpr-hnsv)
adj.
1. So large in scope or content as to include much: a comprehensive history of the revolution.
2. Marked by or showing extensive understanding: comprehensive knowledge.
n.
1. An examination or series of examinations covering the entire field of major study, given in the final undergraduate or graduate year of college. Often used in the plural.
2. A preliminary layout showing all the elements planned for an advertisement.

[Late Latin comprehnsvus, conceivable, from Latin comprehnsus, past participle of comprehendere, to comprehend; see comprehend.]

compre·hensive·ly adv.
compre·hensive·ness n.

comprehensive [ˌkɒmprɪˈhɛnsɪv]
adj
1. of broad scope or content; including all or much
2. (Business / Insurance) (of a car insurance policy) providing protection against most risks, including third-party liability, fire, theft, and damage
3. having the ability to understand
4. (Social Science / Education) of, relating to, or being a comprehensive school
n
(Social Science / Education) short for comprehensive school
comprehensively  adv
comprehensiveness  n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.comprehensive - an intensive examination testing a student's proficiency in some special field of knowledge; "she took her comps in English literature"
exam, examination, test - a set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge; "when the test was stolen the professor had to make a new set of questions"
Adj.1.comprehensive - including all or everything; "comprehensive coverage"; "a comprehensive history of the revolution"; "a comprehensive survey"; "a comprehensive education"
complete - having every necessary or normal part or component or step; "a complete meal"; "a complete wardrobe"; "a complete set of the Britannica"; "a complete set of china"; "a complete defeat"; "a complete accounting"
general - applying to all or most members of a category or group; "the general public"; "general assistance"; "a general rule"; "in general terms"; "comprehensible to the general reader"
broad, wide - having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other; "wide roads"; "a wide necktie"; "wide margins"; "three feet wide"; "a river two miles broad"; "broad shoulders"; "a broad river"
incomprehensive, noncomprehensive - not comprehensive
2.comprehensive - broad in scope; "a comprehensive survey of world affairs"
inclusive - including much or everything; and especially including stated limits; "an inclusive art form"; "an inclusive fee"; "his concept of history is modern and inclusive"; "from Monday to Friday inclusive"

comprehensive
Translations
comprehensive [ˌkɒmprɪˈhensɪv]
A. ADJ
1. (= complete) [list, guide, range] → completo; [report, description, study] → exhaustivo; [account, view] → de conjunto, integral; [knowledge] → extenso; [training] → completo, exhaustivo; [victory, defeat] → aplastante
2. (Brit) (Scol) comprehensive education sistema de enseñanza secundaria que abarca a alumnos de todos los niveles de aptitud
comprehensive schoolinstituto m (de segunda enseñanza)
3. (Insurance) (also fully comprehensive) [insurance, policy, cover] → a todo riesgo
B. N (also comprehensive school) → instituto m (de segunda enseñanza)
COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOLS
La mayoría de las escuelas de educación secundaria en el Reino Unido se conocen como comprehensive schools y ofrecen una gran variedad de asignaturas para cubrir las necesidades educativas de alumnos con diferentes aptitudes. Fueron creadas en los años sesenta en un intento de fomentar la igualdad de oportunidades y acabar con la división tradicional entre los centros selectivos de enseñanzas teóricas (grammar schools) y otros de enseñanza básicamente profesional (secondary modern schools).

comprehensive [ˌkɒmprɪˈhɛnsɪv]
adj
[review, study, list, survey] → (très) complet/ète; [range] → (très) complet/ète
a comprehensive guide → un guide complet
[victory, defeat] → total(e)
[education, system] → polyvalent(e)
n (also comprehensive school) (British) école secondaire non sélective avec libre circulation d'une section à l'autreCES m
comprehensive insurance policy nassurance f tous risques

comprehensive
adjumfassend; to go comprehensive (Brit Sch) → (eine) Gesamtschule werden; (fully) comprehensive insuranceVollkasko (→ versicherung f) nt; are you comprehensive? (Insur) → sind Sie vollkaskoversichert?, haben Sie Vollkasko? (inf)
n (Brit) → Gesamtschule f

comprehensive [ˌkɒmprɪˈhɛnsɪv]
1. adj (study) → esauriente; (knowledge) → esteso/a; (description) → dettagliato/a; (report, review) → completo/a, esauriente; (measures) → di vasta portata
comprehensive insurance policy (Aut) → polizza f casco inv
2. n (Brit) (also comprehensive school) scuola secondaria dagli 11 ai 18 anni, aperta a tutti

comprehensive شامل obsáhlý omfattende umfassend εκτενής exhaustivo kattava compréhensif obuhvatan completo 総合的な 포괄적인 allesomvattend omfattende wyczerpujący abrangente всесторонний heltäckande ที่ครอบคลุม kapsamlı toàn diện 全面的


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No well-informed man will suppose that the affairs of such a confederacy can be properly regulated by a government less comprehensive in its organs or institutions than that which has been proposed by the convention.
My heart flooded over with tender pity for these poor sweet women--though perhaps chiefly for my own sad lot in not encountering them,--and I conceived a great comprehensive love-poem to be entitled "The Girls that never can be Mine.
Astor in his comprehensive project, might throw light upon portions of our country quite out of the track of ordinary travel, and as yet but little known.
 
 
 
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