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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | comprehensive |
| Synonyms: | absolute, across-the-board, all-inclusive, overall, powerful, sweeping, unconditional, wide-ranging |
| Antonyms: | incomplete, uncomprehensive |
| Main Entry: | eclectic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | comprehensive, general |
| Synonyms: | all-embracing, assorted, broad, catholic, dilettantish, diverse, diversified, heterogeneous, inclusive, liberal, many-sided, mingled, mixed, multifarious, multiform, selective, universal, varied, wide-ranging |
| Notes: | eclectic means selecting what seems best of various styles, methods, or ideas while esoteric means intended for and understandable by only a small knowledgeable group |
| Antonyms: | incomprehensive, narrow, particular, specific, unvaried |
| Main Entry: | encyclopedic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | comprehensive |
| Synonyms: | all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, broad, catholic, complete, discursive, exhaustive, extensive, general, thorough, thorough-going, universal, vast, wide-ranging, widespread |
| Antonyms: | brief, incomplete, summary, uncomprehensive |
| Main Entry: | epidemic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | widespread |
| Synonyms: | catching, communicable, contagious, endemic, general, infectious, pandemic, prevailing, prevalent, rampant, rife, sweeping, wide-ranging |
| Notes: | an endemic is a disease that is constantly present to a greater or lesser degree in people of a certain class or in people living in a particular location; an epidemic is a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease that infects many people at the same time; a pandemic is an epidemic that is geographically widespread occurring throughout a region or even throughout the world |
| Antonyms: | limited |
| Main Entry: | expansive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | broad, comprehensive |
| Synonyms: | all-embracing, ample, big, dilatant, elastic, expanding, expansile, extensive, far-reaching, great, inclusive, large, scopic, scopious, stretching, thorough, unrepressed, unsuppressed, voluminous, wide, wide-ranging, widespread |
| Antonyms: | limited, narrow |
| Main Entry: | extensive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | far-reaching, thorough |
| Synonyms: | across the board, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, big, blanket*, boundless, broad, capacious, commodious, comprehensive, comprising, considerable, expanded, extended, far-flung, general, great, hefty, huge, inclusive, indiscriminate, large, large-scale, lengthy, long, major, pervasive, prevalent, protracted, roomy, scopic, scopious, sizable, spacious, sweeping, unexclusive, universal, unrestricted, vast, voluminous, wall to wall, wholesale, wide, wide-ranging, widespread |
| Antonyms: | limited, narrow, restricted, short, uncomprehensive |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | far-flung |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | widespread |
| Synonyms: | comprehensive, distant, extensive, far-extending, far-going, far-reaching, far-spread, far-stretched, global, long, remote, spacious, wide-extending, wide-ranging, wide-reaching, wide-stretching, widely distributed, widespread, without end |
| Main Entry: | full-scale |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | total, all-out |
| Synonyms: | all-encompassing, comprehensive, exhaustive, extensive, full-blown, full-dress, full-out, in-depth, major, proper, sweeping, thorough, thoroughgoing, total, unlimited, wide-ranging |
| Antonyms: | incomplete, incomprehensive, partial |
| Main Entry: | panoramic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sweeping |
| Synonyms: | all-around, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, bird's-eye, blanket, broad, complete, comprehensive, far-reaching, full, panned, scenic, wide-ranging |
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