Comprehensive vs Sufficient - What's the difference?
comprehensive | sufficient |
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= Equal to the end proposed; adequate to wants; enough; ample; competent; as,
Possessing adequate talents or accomplishments; of competent power or ability; qualified; fit.
(archaic) Capable of meeting obligations; responsible.
* 1668 , (Samuel Pepys), December 23 1668
self-sufficient; self-satisfied; content.
The smallest amount needed.
As adjectives the difference between comprehensive and sufficient
is that comprehensive is while sufficient is equal to the end proposed; adequate to wants; enough; ample; competent; as,.As a determiner sufficient is
the smallest amount needed.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.}} ----
sufficient
English
(Webster 1913)Adjective
(en adjective)- We have provision sufficient for the family
- This army is sufficient to defend the country.
- There is not sufficient access to the internet in the some small country villages.
- A two-week training course is sufficient to get a job in the coach-driving profession.
- ...to take the best ways we can, to make it known to the Duke of York; for, till Sir J. Minnes be removed, and a sufficient man brought into W. Pen's place, when he is gone, it is impossible for this Office ever to support itself.
Derived terms
* self-sufficient * sufficiency * sufficientlySee also
* adequate * ample * enough * plentyDeterminer
(en determiner)- Sufficient of us are against this idea that we should stop now.