Synonyms:
comprehensive
Meaning: including all or everything; "comprehensive coverage"; "a comprehensive history of the revolution"; "a comprehensive survey"; "a comprehensive education"
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
comprehensive_examination, comprehensive, comp
Meaning: an intensive examination testing a student's proficiency in some special field of knowledge; "she took her comps in English literature"
Usage examples
This extension of our insight makes foresight more accurate and comprehensive.
What Pity 'tis, said some who were present, that one of so comprehensive a Genius, should make such a scurvy Cavalier?
I also planned a great magnetic survey of the East, and I believe it remains the most comprehensive of its kind yet performed.
A comprehensive law protecting non-game birds was enacted in 1862. New York's first law against the sale of certain game during close seasons was enacted in 1837.
Chopin then, according to Hadow, is no "builder of the lofty rhyme," but the poet of the single line, the maker of the phrase exquisite. This is hardly comprehensive.
You are bound, in justice to your family, if not to yourself, to take in at a comprehensive glance the extremest point in the horizon to which your abilities may lead you.'
He never wanted to understand her; the relentless passion for analysis was absorbed in a comprehensive enthusiasm which embraced the whole of Alison and took no count of the parts.
Refreshed and exhilarated, you follow your trail-way through silver fir and pine woods to Eagle Peak, where the most comprehensive of all the views to be had on the north-wall heights are displayed.
She considered it as an act of indispensable duty to clear away the claims of creditors with all the expedition which the most comprehensive retrenchments could secure, and saw no dignity in anything short of it.
But it is so complete, so imaginatively comprehensive, so immediately operative on the conscience through its poetic suggestiveness, that when it is once understood, there is nothing more to be said, but everything to be done.