Complete vs. Comprehensive — What's the Difference?

Having all necessary or normal parts, components, or steps; entire

So large in scope or content as to include much

(Botany) Having all principal parts, namely, the sepals, petals, stamens, and pistil or pistils. Used of a flower.

Marked by or showing extensive understanding

Having come to an end; concluded

An examination or series of examinations covering the entire field of major study, given to a student in the final year of undergraduate or graduate study.

Absolute; thorough

Broadly or completely covering; including a large proportion of something.

Accomplished; consummate

(British) A comprehensive school.

(Football) Caught in bounds by a receiver

Including much; comprising many things; having a wide scope or a full view.

To bring to a finish or an end

Having the power to comprehend or understand many things.

To make whole, with all necessary elements or parts

Possessing peculiarities that are characteristic of several diverse groups.

(Football) To throw (a forward pass) that is caught in bounds by a receiver.

Including all or everything;

(ambitransitive) To finish; to make done; to reach the end.

Broad in scope;

(transitive) To make whole or entire.

Being the most comprehensive of its class;

(poker) To call from the small blind in an unraised pot.

With all parts included; with nothing missing; full.

Finished; ended; concluded; completed.

Generic intensifier.

In which every Cauchy sequence converges to a point within the space.

In which every set with a lower bound has a greatest lower bound.

In which all small limits exist.

In which every semantically valid well-formed formula is provable.

That is in a given complexity class and is such that every other problem in the class can be reduced to it (usually in polynomial time or logarithmic space).

Filled up; with no part or element lacking; free from deficiency; entire; perfect; consummate.

Finished; ended; concluded; completed; as, the edifice is complete.

Having all the parts or organs which belong to it or to the typical form; having calyx, corolla, stamens, and pistil.

To bring to a state in which there is no deficiency; to perfect; to consummate; to accomplish; to fulfill; to finish; as, to complete a task, or a poem; to complete a course of education.

Come or bring to a finish or an end;

Bring to a whole, with all the necessary parts or elements;

Complete or carry out;

Complete a pass

Write all the required information onto a form;

Having every necessary or normal part or component or step;

Perfect and complete in every respect; having all necessary qualities;

Having all four whorls or principal parts--sepals and petals and stamens and carpels (or pistils);

Highly skilled;

Without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers;

Having come or been brought to a conclusion;