comprehensive
Noun pluralcomprehensives
Pluralcomprehensives
- 1Covering all or nearly all parts of something, with little left out.
Like a checklist that includes every single item, with nothing left off.
The teacher handed us a comprehensive list of every rule in the school.
We need a comprehensive plan that deals with every step of the trip.
Similarthorough, extensive, exhaustive, complete, broad
Oppositelimited, partial, incomplete, narrow
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- 2A government-funded school in Britain that takes in students of all abilities.
Like a school that opens its doors to everyone in the area, not just the top students.
She went to the local comprehensive before heading off to university.
Most kids in our town go to a comprehensive nearby.
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Origin
It came from a late Middle French word, which goes back to a Latin verb meaning to grasp or take in.