Comprehensive vs. Cumulative
Comprehensiveadjective
Broadly or completely covering; including a large proportion of something.
‘When there are diametrically opposing views on a big issue that concerns millions of people, doing comprehensive research just makes sense.’;
Cumulativeadjective
Incorporating all current and previous data up to the present or at the time of measuring or collating
Comprehensivenoun
(British) A comprehensive school.
Cumulativeadjective
That is formed by an accumulation of successive additions
Comprehensiveadjective
Including much; comprising many things; having a wide scope or a full view.
‘A very comprehensive definition.’; ‘Large and comprehensive idea.’;
Cumulativeadjective
That tends to accumulate
Comprehensiveadjective
Having the power to comprehend or understand many things.
Cumulativeadjective
(finance) Having priority rights to receive a dividend that accrue until paid
Comprehensiveadjective
Possessing peculiarities that are characteristic of several diverse groups.
Cumulativeadjective
Composed of parts in a heap; forming a mass; aggregated.
Comprehensiveadjective
including all or everything;
‘comprehensive coverage’; ‘a comprehensive history of the revolution’; ‘a comprehensive survey’; ‘a comprehensive education’;
Cumulativeadjective
Augmenting, gaining, or giving force, by successive additions; as, a cumulative argument, i. e., one whose force increases as the statement proceeds.
‘The argument . . . is in very truth not logical and single, but moral and cumulative.’;
Comprehensiveadjective
broad in scope;
‘a comprehensive survey of world affairs’;
Cumulativeadjective
Tending to prove the same point to which other evidence has been offered; - said of evidence.
Comprehensiveadjective
being the most comprehensive of its class;
‘an unabridged dictionary’;
Cumulativeadjective
increasing by successive addition;
‘the benefits are cumulative’; ‘the eventual accumulative effect of these substances’;
Cumulativeadjective
increasing or increased in quantity, degree, or force by successive additions
‘the cumulative effect of two years of drought’;
