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Comprehensive vs Inclusive - What's the difference?

comprehensive | inclusive |

As adjectives the difference between comprehensive and inclusive

is that comprehensive is broadly or completely covering; including a large proportion of something while inclusive is including (almost) everything within its scope.

As a noun comprehensive

is a comprehensive school.

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.}} ----

    inclusive

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • including (almost) everything within its scope
  • An inclusive list of Wiki formats
  • including the extremes as well as the area between
  • Numbers 1 to 10 inclusive
  • (linguistics) of, or relating to the first-person plural pronoun when including the person being addressed
  • As the we' in ''If you want, '''we could go back to my place for coffee.

    Derived terms

    * all-inclusive * self-inclusive

    See also

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