comprehensive
Meaning of comprehensive
- including or dealing with all or nearly all elements or aspects of something.
a comprehensive list of sources
- relating to or denoting a system of secondary education in which children of all abilities from a particular area are educated in one school.
a comprehensive school
- relating to understanding.
- a comprehensive school.
he trained as an accountant after leaving the local comprehensive
when I was 14 I was at comprehensive
early 17th century: from French compréhensif, -ive, from late Latin comprehensivus, from the verb comprehendere ‘grasp mentally’.
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Hyphenation of comprehensive
com-pre-hen-sive
- It consists of 4 syllables and 13 chars.
- comprehensive is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
comprehensive synonyms
Meaning comprehensive examination:
Translation of comprehensive
- French: complet
- Spanish: completo, exhaustivo, exhaustiva, completa
- Portuguese: exaustivo
Words that rhyme with comprehensive
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