Comprehensive vs Complicated - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between comprehensive and complicated

is that comprehensive is broadly or completely covering; including a large proportion of something while complicated is difficult or convoluted.

As a noun comprehensive

is a comprehensive school.

As a verb complicated is

past tense of complicate.

comprehensive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Broadly]] or completely covering; [[include, including a large proportion of something.

Synonyms

* (broadly or completely covering) exhaustive, thorough, all-encompassing

Derived terms

* comprehensively * comprehensivization * comprehensivize

Noun

(en noun)

(British) A comprehensive school.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Peter Wilby)

, volume=189, issue=6, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Finland spreads word on schools , passage=Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.}} ----

complicated

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Difficult or convoluted.

It seems this complicated situation will not blow over soon.

Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.

(Biology) Folded longitudinally (as in the wings of certain insects).

Antonyms

* simple

Verb

(head)

(complicate)

The process of fixing the car engine was complicated by the lack of tools.