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comprehensive (iou)



comprehensive adjective & noun. E17.
[French comprehensif, -ive or late Latin comprehensivus, from comprehens-: see COMPREHENSIBLE, -IVE.]
A. adjective.
Comprising or including much or all; of large content or scope; spec. (of motor vehicle insurance) providing cover for most risks, including damage to the policyholder's own vehicle. E17.
M. Frayn A comprehensive lexicon of all the multi-purpose monosyllables used by headline-writers. D. Halberstam He wanted more coverage than any other paper; he was determined..to be comprehensive.
b. Inclusive of. M17.
c. spec. Designating a secondary school or a system of education which provides for children of all intellectual or other abilities. M20.
Characterized by mental comprehension; embracing many mental sympathies etc. E17.
Logic. Understood in intension as opp. to extension. Now rare or obsolete. E18.
b. noun. A comprehensive school. M20.
comprehensively adverb LME.
comprehensiveness noun M17.
comprehensivi'zation noun the action of comprehensivizing M20.
comprehensivize verb trans. make (a school, an education system) comprehensive M20.