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Cumulative vs Comprehensive - What's the difference?

cumulative | comprehensive |

As adjectives the difference between cumulative and comprehensive

is that cumulative is incorporating all data up to the present while comprehensive is broadly or completely covering; including a large proportion of something.

As a noun comprehensive is

a comprehensive school.

cumulative

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Incorporating all data up to the present
  • That is formed by accumulation of successive additions
  • * Francis Bacon
    • As for knowledge which man receiveth by teaching, it is cumulative , not original.
  • * Trench
    • The argument is in very truth not logical and single, but moral and cumulative .
  • That tends to accumulate
  • (finance) Having priority rights to receive a dividend that accrue until paid

    • Derived terms

    * (l)

    Related terms

    * (l)

    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.}} ----