Word Meanings - COMPREHENSIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

Additional info about word: COMPREHENSIVE

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 Agssiz, is nearly synonymous. Syn. -- Extensive; wide; large; full; compendious. (more info) 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COMPREHENSIVE)

• Broad
• Wide
• extensive
• expansive
• ample
• liberal
• comprehensive
• unreserved
• indelicate
• coarse
• generic
• Capacious
• Spacious
• voluminous
• accommodative
• wide
• Compendious
• Condensed
• concentrated
• brief
• short
• succinct
• concise
• abridged
• commodious
• convenient
• useful
• handy
• compact
• Inclusive
• Comprehensive
• embracing
• additive
• implied
• Large
• Big
• bulky
• abundant
• capacious
• enlightened
• catholic
• great
• vast

Related words: (words related to COMPREHENSIVE)

• CATHOLICON
  A remedy for all diseases; a panacea.
• COMPREHENSIVENESS
  The quality of being comprehensive; extensiveness of scope. Compare the beauty and comprehensiveness of legends on ancient coins. Addison.
• BULKY
  Of great bulk or dimensions; of great size; large; thick; massive; as, bulky volumes. A bulky digest of the revenue laws. Hawthorne.
• IMPLIEDLY
  By implication or inference. Bp. Montagu.
• BROADSWORD
  A sword with a broad blade and a cutting edge; a claymore. I heard the broadsword's deadly clang. Sir W. Scott.
• CATHOLIC
  1. Universal or general; as, the catholic faith. Men of other countries to bear their part in so great and catholic a war. Southey. Note: This epithet, which is applicable to the whole Christian church, or its faith, is claimed by Roman Catholics
• BROADBILL
  A wild duck , which appears in large numbers on the eastern coast of the United States, in autumn; - - called also bluebill, blackhead, raft duck, and scaup duck. See Scaup duck.
• COMMODIOUSLY
  In a commodious manner. To pass commodiously this life. Milton.
• GREAT-HEARTED
  1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• SHORT-WITED
  Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
• COARSE
  was anciently written course, or cours, it may be an abbreviation of of course, in the common manner of proceeding, common, and hence, homely, made for common domestic use, plain, rude, rough, gross, e. 1. Large in bulk, or composed of large parts
• LIBERALIZE
  To make liberal; to free from narrow views or prejudices. To open and to liberalize the mind. Burke.
• ADDITIVE
  Proper to be added; positive; -- opposed to subtractive.
• BROADLY
  In a broad manner.
• CATHOLICIZE
  To make or to become catholic or Roman Catholic.
• CATHOLICITY
  1. The state or quality of being catholic; universality. 2. Liberality of sentiments; catholicism. 3. Adherence or conformity to the system of doctrine held by all parts of the orthodox Christian church; the doctrine so held; orthodoxy.
• BROAD
  Characterized by breadth. See Breadth. 9. Cross; coarse; indelicate; as, a broad compliment; a broad joke; broad humor. 10. Strongly marked; as, a broad Scotch accent. Note: Broad is often used in compounds to signify wide, large, etc.;
• CONDENSATIVE
  Having the property of condensing.
• BROADCLOTH
  A fine smooth-faced woolen cloth for men's garments, usually of double width ; -- so called in distinction from woolens three quarters of a yard wide.
• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• UNEXAMPLED
  Having no example or similar case; being without precedent; unprecedented; unparalleled. "A revolution . . . unexampled for grandeur of results." De Quincey.
• SIMPLIFICATION
  The act of simplifying. A. Smith.
• INGREAT
  To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby.
• ILLIBERALISM
  Illiberality.
• CONGENERIC; CONGENERICAL
  Belonging to the same genus; allied in origin, nature, or action. R. Owen.
• SEA BRIEF
  See LETTER
• RECONDENSATION
  The act or process of recondensing.