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Comprehensive vs Understood - What's the difference?

comprehensive | understood |

As adjectives the difference between comprehensive and understood

is that comprehensive is while understood is of things which have been comprehended.

As a verb understood is

(understand).

As an interjection understood is

indicates comprehension on the part of the speaker.

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.}} ----

    understood

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of things which have been comprehended.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (understand)