Comprehensive vs Contemptuous - What's the difference?
comprehensive | contemptuous |
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= Showing contempt; expressing disdain; showing a lack of respect.
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
, chapter=5, title=
As adjectives the difference between comprehensive and contemptuous
is that comprehensive is while contemptuous is showing contempt; expressing disdain; showing a lack of respect.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.}} ----
contemptuous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite.
