comprehensive
Origin of comprehensive
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chiefly, generally, mostly, widely, principally, broadly, predominantly, intensely, very, fully, intensively, wholly, completely, carefully, earnestly, highly, extremely, scrupulously, painstakingly, conscientiouslyExamples from the Web for comprehensively
Contemporary Examples of comprehensively
He was comprehensively out-foxed by Salmond, the Scottish National Party leader, who now finds himself in a win-win position.
Anarchy for the U.K.? British Leaders Panicking Over Scottish Vote for IndependenceNico Hines
September 10, 2014
No news organization covered September 11, during or since, as comprehensively or as poignantly as the Times did.
Inside Tania Head’s Terrible 9/11 Lie: ‘The Woman Who Wasn’t There’Robin Gaby Fisher, Angelo J. Guglielmo, Jr.
April 6, 2012
They were raised in a comprehensively political household, sons of the Marxist historian Ralph Miliband.
Drainage had not been as comprehensively planned as the London system.
This is the sort of unapologetically practical, comprehensively preventive measure we should be thinking of.
Historical Examples of comprehensively
She answered Eugene Snow's every question unhesitatingly and comprehensively.
Her Father's DaughterGene Stratton-Porter
Disko removed his cigar and waved it comprehensively round the cabin.
"Captains Courageous"Rudyard Kipling
He waved an arm, comprehensively taking in the whole countryside.
The Watchers of the PlainsRidgewell Cullum
Andrew's face also was full, but rather in places than comprehensively.
The Prodigal FatherJ. Storer Clouston
"I am afraid of marrying on any means," she says, comprehensively.
Red as a Rose is SheRhoda Broughton