Difference between Broad and Comprehensive

What is the difference between Broad and Comprehensive?

Broad as an adjective is (of a person or object) wide in extent or scope while Comprehensive as an adjective is broadly or completely covering; including a large proportion of something.

Broad

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: (of a person or object) wide in extent or scope having a specified width (e.g. 3 ft broad) strongly regional

Part of speech: noun

Definition: (increasingly obsolescent) A prostitute, a woman of loose morals. A colloquial term for a woman or girl. (UK) A channel of water, specifically the bodies of water (not to be confused with the rivers) that make up Norfolk and Suffolk.

Example sentence: I always wanted to be a zookeeper when I was growing up, and I've wound up a zookeeper! I've been working with the Los Angeles Zoo for 45 years! I'm the luckiest old broad on two feet because my life is divided absolutely in half - half animals and half show business. You can't ask for better than two things you love the most.

Comprehensive

Part of speech: adjective

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

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A comprehensive school.

Example sentence: The fact is, Donald's pathologies are so complex and his behaviors so often inexplicable that coming up with an accurate and comprehensive diagnosis would require a full battery of psychological and neurophysical tests that he'll never sit for.

We hope you now know whether to use Broad or Comprehensive in your sentence.

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