Comprehensive vs Careful - What's the difference?
comprehensive | careful |
Broadly]] or completely covering; [[include, including a large proportion of something.
(British) A comprehensive school.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Peter Wilby)
, volume=189, issue=6, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= (obsolete) Full of care or grief; sorrowful, sad.
*, Bk.V:
*:‘Alas,’ sayde Sir Cadore, ‘now carefull is myne herte that now lyeth dede my cosyn that I beste loved.’
(obsolete) Full of cares or anxiety; worried, troubled.
*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.1:
*:Where through long watch, and late daies weary toile, / She soundly slept, and carefull thoughts did quite assoile.
Having care (for); attentive to potential danger, error or harm; cautious.
:He was a slow and careful driver.
Conscientious and painstaking; meticulous.
:They made a careful search of the crime scene.
As adjectives the difference between comprehensive and careful
is that comprehensive is while careful is (obsolete) full of care or grief; sorrowful, sad.comprehensive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* (broadly or completely covering) exhaustive, thorough, all-encompassingDerived terms
* comprehensively * comprehensivization * comprehensivizeNoun
(en noun)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.}} ----
