English > comprehensive: 3 senses > adjective 1| Meaning | Including all or everything. |
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| Examples | - "comprehensive coverage"
- "a comprehensive history of the revolution"
- "a comprehensive survey"
- "a comprehensive education"
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| Attribute of | comprehensiveness, fullness | completeness over a broad scope |
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| Narrower | across-the-board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, blanket, broad, encompassing, extensive, panoptic, wide | Broad in scope or content |
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| all-around, all-round, well-rounded | many-sided |
| citywide | Occurring or extending throughout a city |
| cosmopolitan, ecumenical, oecumenical, general, universal, worldwide, world-wide | Of worldwide scope or applicability |
| countrywide, nationwide | Occurring or extending throughout a country or nation |
| countywide | Occurring or extending throughout a county |
| door-to-door, house-to-house | omitting no one |
| encyclopedic, encyclopaedic | Broad in scope or content |
| large | Having broad power and range and scope |
| omnibus | Providing for many things at once |
| plenary | Full in all respects |
| schoolwide | Occurring or extending throughout a school |
| spatiotemporal, spaciotemporal | Existing in both space and time |
| statewide | Occurring or extending throughout a state / state |
| super | Including more than a specified category / category |
| umbrella | Covering or applying simultaneously to a number of similar items or elements or groups |
| See also | complete | Having every necessary or normal part or component or step |
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| general | applying to all or most members of a category / category or group |
| wide, broad | Having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other |
| Opposite | noncomprehensive, incomprehensive | not comprehensive |
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| Spanish | completo, extenso, global |
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| Nouns | comprehensiveness | completeness over a broad scope |
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| Adverbs | comprehensively | in an all-inclusive manner |
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| Verbs | comprehend | include in scope |
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