comprehensive

Academic Word List, sublist 7.

About 24.33 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Broadly or completely covering; including a large proportion of something.

   When there are diametrically opposing views on a big issue that concerns millions of people, doing comprehensive research just makes sense.

2. noun A comprehensive school.

Similar words

across-the-board all-round far-reaching all-embracing all-encompassing broad all-around extensive general wide

Often followed by

and study review plan view survey system approach analysis

Word family

comprehensively comprehensiveness comprehensivenesses