Synonyms: comp, comprehensive, comprehensive examination
Definition: an intensive examination testing a student's proficiency in some special field of knowledge
Usage: she took her comps in English literature
Similar words: test, exam, examination
Definition: a set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge
Usage: when the test was stolen the professor had to make a new set of questions
Synonyms: comprehensive
Definition: including all or everything
Usage: comprehensive coverage; a comprehensive history of the revolution; a comprehensive survey; a comprehensive education
Similar words: broad, blanket, extensive, encompassing, panoptic, wide, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, across-the-board
Definition: broad in scope or content
Usage: across-the-board pay increases; an all-embracing definition; blanket sanctions against human-rights violators; an invention with broad applications; a panoptic study of Soviet nationality- T.G.Winner; granted him wide powers
Similar words: all-around, all-round, well-rounded
Definition: many-sided
Usage: an all-around athlete; a well-rounded curriculum
Similar words: citywide
Definition: occurring or extending throughout a city
Usage: citywide bussing; a citywide strike
Similar words: countywide
Definition: occurring or extending throughout a county
Usage: a countywide war on drugs; countywide elections
Similar words: countrywide, nationwide
Definition: occurring or extending throughout a country or nation
Usage: the event aroused nationwide interest; a countrywide fund-raising campaign
Similar words: oecumenical, cosmopolitan, ecumenical, world-wide, worldwide, universal, general
Definition: of worldwide scope or applicability
Usage: an issue of cosmopolitan import; the shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time- Christopher Morley; universal experience
Similar words: door-to-door, house-to-house
Definition: omitting no one; from the door of one house to that of the next
Usage: a door-to-door campaign; house-to-house coverage
Similar words: encyclopaedic, encyclopedic
Definition: broad in scope or content
Usage: encyclopedic knowledge
Similar words: large
Definition: having broad power and range and scope
Usage: taking the large view; a large effect; a large sympathy
Similar words: omnibus
Definition: providing for many things at once
Usage: an omnibus law
Similar words: plenary
Definition: full in all respects
Usage: a plenary session of the legislature; a diplomat with plenary powers
Similar words: spaciotemporal, spatiotemporal
Definition: existing in both space and time; having both spatial extension and temporal duration
Similar words: schoolwide
Definition: occurring or extending throughout a school
Usage: schoolwide support for the team
Similar words: statewide
Definition: occurring or extending throughout a state
Usage: the statewide recycling program
Similar words: super
Definition: including more than a specified category
Usage: a super experiment
Similar words: umbrella
Definition: covering or applying simultaneously to a number of similar items or elements or groups
Usage: an umbrella organization; umbrella insurance coverage
Synonyms: comprehensive
Definition: broad in scope
Usage: a comprehensive survey of world affairs
Similar words: inclusive
Definition: including much or everything; and especially including stated limits
Usage: an inclusive art form; an inclusive fee; his concept of history is modern and inclusive; from Monday to Friday inclusive