Rich vs Comprehensive - What's the difference?
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Wealthy: having a lot of money and possessions.
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Plentiful, abounding, abundant, fulfilling.
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, title= Yielding large returns; productive or fertile; fruitful.
Composed of valuable or costly materials or ingredients; procured at great outlay; highly valued; precious; sumptuous; costly.
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Not faint or delicate; vivid.
(informal, dated) Very amusing.
(informal) Ridiculous, absurd.
(computing) Elaborate]], having complex [[format, formatting, multimedia, or depth of interaction.
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Of a fuel-air mixture, having less air than is necessary to burn all of the fuel; less air- or oxygen- rich than necessary for a stoichiometric reaction.
(obsolete) To enrich.
Broadly]] or completely covering; [[include, including a large proportion of something.
(British) A comprehensive school.
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As adjectives the difference between rich and comprehensive
is that rich is as hell, very while comprehensive is .rich
English
Adjective
(er)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“A very welcome, kind, useful present, that means to the parish. By the way, Hopkins, let this go no further. We don't want the tale running round that a rich person has arrived. Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing. […]”}}
Money just makes the rich suffer, passage=In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. The welfare state is dismantled. […]}}
- a rich''' dish; '''rich''' cream or soup; '''rich pastry
- Sauces and rich spices are fetched from India.
- a rich''' treasury; a '''rich''' entertainment; a '''rich crop
- If life be short, it shall be glorious; / Each minute shall be rich in some great action.
- The gorgeous East with richest hand / Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold.
Battle of the bulge, passage=For countries with rich culinary traditions that date back to the Aztecs and Incas, Mexico and Peru have developed quite a taste for modern food fashions. Mexicans quaff more fizzy drinks than any other country; Peru has the highest density of fast-food joints in the world.}}
- rich''' soil or land; a '''rich mine
- a rich''' dress; '''rich''' silk or fur; '''rich presents
- rich and various gems
- a rich red colour
- The scene was a rich one.
- a rich incident or character
- (Thackeray)
- A skilled multimedia developer will have no problems adding interactive video and audio into existing rich media web pages.
- Some rich text email messages contain formatting information that's best viewed with Microsoft Word.
- But what did matter was that the new web platform provided a rich experience.
Synonyms
* (wealthy) wealthy, well off, see alsoAntonyms
* (wealthy) poor; see also * (plentiful) needy * (computing) plain, unformatted, vanilla * (fuel-air mixture) leanDerived terms
* filthy rich * get-rich-quick * hood rich * neutron-rich * nickel-rich * too rich for one's blood * rags to riches * richdom * riches * richly * rich media * richness * rich tea biscuit * rich text * strike it rich * superrichVerb
- (Gower)
Statistics
* 1000 English basic wordscomprehensive
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.}} ----