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Comprehensive vs Taxative - What's the difference?

comprehensive | taxative |

As adjectives the difference between comprehensive and taxative

is that comprehensive is while taxative is relating to taxation.

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.}} ----

    taxative

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Relating to taxation.
  • * 1906 , William Stubbs, Lectures on Early English History , page 325:
    • We gather from this that the taxative machinery of the exchequer — that is, the visits of the barons to the different towns and county courts for the purpose of rating the feudal aids and assessing Danegeld — [...]
  • Exhaustive, comprehensive.
  • * 1829 , Cases Decided in the House of Lords, on Appeal from the Courts of Scotland , volume 1, 1825, page 599:
    • They are merely demonstrative, not taxative .
  • * 1876 , Robert Hunter, A Treatise on the Law of Landlord and Tenant , volume 2, edition 4, page 182:
    • It was held that the description was indicative of the identity of the lands, but not taxative as to the extent.
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