comprehensive
Including all or nearly all elements, aspects, or details; thorough and complete.
writing-task-2readingspeakingEducationGovernment and society
IELTS use
Describing policies, studies, or solutions in Task 2; discussing thorough understanding in Speaking.
Examples
- A comprehensive public transport strategy would reduce traffic congestion effectively.
- The government introduced a comprehensive healthcare reform package last year.
Collocations
- comprehensive reform
- Comprehensive education reform is needed to address inequality.
Word family
- Noun
- comprehensiveness
- Adjective
- comprehensive
- Adverb
- comprehensively
Paraphrases
- all-encompassing: Emphasises a very wide scope.
- thorough and inclusive: Useful for describing research or reviews.
Common mistakes
- comprehesive to comprehensive. Spelling error: 'comprehensive' has four syllables and the correct spelling includes 'hen'.
- very comprehensive than to more comprehensive than. Use 'more' for comparative, not 'very'.