comprehensive

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
comprehensive/kɒmprɪˈhensɪv/

▶adjective

• 1 including or dealing with all or nearly all aspects of something.

  ■ of large content or scope.

  ■ (of a victory or defeat) by a large margin.

  ■ (of motor-vehicle insurance) providing cover for most risks, including damage to the policyholder's own vehicle.

• 2 Brit. denoting a system of secondary education in which children of all abilities from an area are educated in one school.

• 3 archaic relating to understanding.

▶noun Brit. a comprehensive school.

– derivatives
comprehensively adverb,
comprehensiveness noun.