| Pronunciation: | `kâmpri'hensiv | ||
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| Matching Terms: | comprehensive perl archive network, comprehensive school, comprehensive tex archive network, comprehensive wetland determination, comprehensively, comprehensiveness | ||
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| Synonyms: | across-the-board, all-around(a), all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, all-round(a), blanket(a), broad, cosmopolitan, door-to-door, ecumenical, encompassing, encyclopaedic, encyclopedic, extensive, far-reaching, general, house-to-house, inclusive, large, oecumenical, omnibus(a), panoptic, plenary, spaciotemporal, spatiotemporal, super, sweeping, umbrella, unabridged, universal, well-rounded, wide, worldwide | ||
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| Antonyms: | incomprehensive, noncomprehensive | ||
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| See Also: | complete | ||
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| Definition: | \Com`pre*hen"sive\, a. [Cf. F. compr['e]hensif.]
1. Including much; comprising many things; having a wide
scope or a full view.
A very comprehensive definition. --Bentley.
Large and comprehensive idea. --Channing.
2. Having the power to comprehend or understand many things.
``His comprehensive head.'' --Pope.
3. (Zo["o]l.) Possessing peculiarities that are
characteristic of several diverse groups.
Note: The term is applied chiefly to early fossil groups
which have a combination of structures that appear in
more fully developed or specialized forms in later
groups. Synthetic, as used by Agassiz, is nearly
synonymous.
Syn: Extensive; wide; large; full; compendious.
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| Definition: | An early system on mit's whirlwind. [Listed in CACM 2(5):16, May 1959]. | ||
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| Related Terms: | absolute, across-the-board, aggregate, all, all-comprehensive, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, all-out, all-pervading, ample, blanket, born, broad, broad-based, capacious, clean, clear, coincident, compact, compendious, complete, concurrent, congenital, conjoint, conjugate, conjunct, consequential, considerable, consummate, copious, corporate, deep, deep-dyed, downright, dyed-in-the-wool, egregious, encompassing, encyclopedic, entire, exhaustive, expansive, extensive, full, generous, global, grand, grave, great, gross, heavy, holistic, inclusive, integral, integrated, intense, intensive, irresistible, joined, joint, main, maximum, mighty, omnibus, omnipresent, one, one and indivisible, out-and-out, outright, overall, over-all, panoramic, perfect, pervasive, plain, plenary, plumb, powerful, pure, radical, regular, serious, sheer, spacious, straight, strong, sweeping, synoptic, thorough, thoroughgoing, through-and-through, total, ubiquitous, unconditional, universal, unmitigated, unqualified, unreserved, unrestricted, utter, veritable, voluminous, whole, wholesale, wide, without exception, without omission | ||
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