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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Comprehensive \Com'pre*hen"sive\, adjective [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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
comprehensive
adjective
1: including all or everything; "comprehensive coverage"; "a comprehensive history of the revolution"; "a comprehensive survey"; "a comprehensive education" [ant: {noncomprehensive}]
2: broad in scope; "a comprehensive survey of world affairs"
3: being the most comprehensive of its class; "an unabridged dictionary"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
107 Moby Thesaurus words for "comprehensive": 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, over-all, overall, 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
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
COMPREHENSIVE An early system on {MIT}'s {Whirlwind}. [Listed in CACM 2(5):16, May 1959]. (2002-06-03)
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