comprehensive vs comprehensible
comprehensive
Definitions
noun
- an intensive examination testing a student's proficiency in some special field of knowledge
adjective
- broad in scope
- including all or everything
Examples
They were comprehensively beaten in the final.
There is no generally accepted comprehensive definition of a portolan chart.
Insist that they send you a comprehensive list of all your direct debits and standing orders as soon as possible.
comprehensible
Definitions
adjective
- capable of being comprehended or understood
Examples
Through her suit, Suzie Nova felt the diamantine exterior of the alien contraption throb faintly below her feet, alive with incomprehensible energies that course through it like blood through arteries.
He is as incomprehensible as he is inaccessible.
Remorse and guilt are incomprehensible to the perpetratorsat this stage of the game because all significant players were for sale, andwere therefore immune to their own remorse.
