Comprehensive and Total

Comprehensive

Comprehensive adjective - Not lacking any part or member that properly belongs to it.
Usage example: a comprehensive listing of all the paintings generally attributed to the Dutch artist Rembrandt

Total is a synonym for comprehensive in whole topic. In some cases you can use "Total" instead the word "Comprehensive" as an adjective or a noun.

Total

Total adjective - Not lacking any part or member that properly belongs to it.
Usage example: gave us a total rundown of the events

Comprehensive is a synonym for total in whole topic. You can use "Comprehensive" instead an adjective "Total", if it concerns topics such as complete, entire.

Nearby Words: totaled, tot, totality, totaling, totalled

Both words in one sentence

  • Doorstopper Total Football and Total Hockey were every bit as comprehensive, albeit at just under 2000 pages each.
    Source: Doorstopper
  • As of Tag 2, he has a whopping total of nine stances, the most out of any cast member, and it also means his moveset is amongst one of the largest and most comprehensive.
  • World War II / War In Asia And The Pacific The loss of Burma means a loss of 10% of the Indian Subcontinent's total grain supply, though the loss hits Bengal hardest - some two million die of starvation-related diseases before Britain overrules the regional governments and imposes a comprehensive program of famine-relief.
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