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comprehensive vs comprehensible

comprehensive

Definitions

noun

  1. an intensive examination testing a student's proficiency in some special field of knowledge

adjective

  1. broad in scope
  2. 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.

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comprehensible

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adjective

  1. 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.

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