comprehensive

 
Pronunciation: /kɒmprɪˈhɛnsɪv/

adjective

  • 1including or dealing with all or nearly all elements or aspects of something: a comprehensive list of sources
  • of large content or scope; wide-ranging: a comprehensive collection of photographs
  • (of a victory or defeat) achieved or suffered by a large margin: a comprehensive victory for Swansea
  • (of motor-vehicle insurance) providing cover for most risks, including damage to the policyholder’s own vehicle.
  • 2British 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
  • 3 archaic relating to understanding.

noun

British
  • a comprehensive school: he trained as an accountant after leaving the local comprehensive when I was 14 I was at comprehensive

Derivatives

comprehensively

adverb

comprehensiveness

noun

Origin:

early 17th century: from French compréhensif, -ive, from late Latin comprehensivus, from the verb comprehendere 'grasp mentally'