Word Meanings - COMPREHENSIVELY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a comprehensive manner; with great extent of scope.

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• COMPREHENSIVENESS
  The quality of being comprehensive; extensiveness of scope. Compare the beauty and comprehensiveness of legends on ancient coins. Addison.
• SCOPELINE
  Scopeloid.
• GREAT-HEARTED
  1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• GREAT-GRANDSON
  A son of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• GREAT-HEARTEDNESS
  The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity.
• SCOPE
  1. That at which one aims; the thing or end to which the mind directs its view; that which is purposed to be reached or accomplished; hence, ultimate design, aim, or purpose; intention; drift; object. "Shooting wide, do miss the marked scope."
• SCOPELOID
  Like or pertaining to fishes of the genus Scopelus, or family Scopelodæ, which includes many small oceanic fishes, most of which are phosphorescent. -- n.
• GREAT-GRANDMOTHER
  The mother of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• GREATLY
  1. In a great degree; much. I will greatly multiply thy sorrow. Gen. iii. 16. 2. Nobly; illustriously; magnanimously. By a high fate thou greatly didst expire. Dryden.
• GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER
  A daughter of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• GREAT-GRANDCHILD
  The child of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• GREATNESS
  1. The state, condition, or quality of being great; as, greatness of size, greatness of mind, power, etc. 2. Pride; haughtiness. It is not of pride or greatness that he cometh not aboard your ships. Bacon.
• GREAT
  great, AS. gret; akin to OS. & LG. grt, D. groot, OHG. grz, G. gross. 1. Large in space; of much size; big; immense; enormous; expanded; -- opposed to small and little; as, a great house, ship, farm, plain, distance, length. 2. Large in number;
• GREAT WHITE WAY
  Broadway, in New York City, in the neighborhood chiefly occupied by theaters, as from about 30th Street about 50th Street; -- so called from its brilliant illumination at night.
• EXTENT
  Extended. Spenser.
• MANNERLINESS
  The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
• COMPREHENSIVE
  Possessing peculiarities that are characteristic of several diverse groups. Note: The term is applied chiefly to early fossil groups which have a combination of structures that appear in more fully developed or specialized forms in later groups.
• HAEMATOSCOPE
  A hæmoscope.
• INGREAT
  To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby.
• LACTOSCOPE
  An instrument for estimating the amount of cream contained in milk by ascertaining its relative opacity.
• METEOROSCOPE
  An astrolabe; a planisphere. An instrument for measuring the position, length, and direction, of the apparent path of a shooting star.
• OTOSCOPEIC
  Of or pertaining to the otoscope or to otoscopy.
• ENDOSCOPE
  An instrument for examining the interior of the rectum, the urethra, and the bladder.
• MICROSPECTROSCOPE
  A spectroscope arranged for attachment to a microscope, for observation of the spectrum of light from minute portions of any substance.
• STEREOMONOSCOPE
  An instrument with two lenses, by which an image of a single picture projected upon a screen of ground glass is made to present an appearance of relief, and may be viewed by several persons at once.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• TELESPECTROSCOPE
  A spectroscope arranged to be attached to a telescope for observation of distant objects, as the sun or stars. Lockyer.
• ANEMOSCOPE
  An instrument which shows the direction of the wind; a wind vane; a weathercock; -- usually applied to a contrivance consisting of a vane above, connected in the building with a dial or index with pointers to show the changes of the wind.
• INCOMPREHENSIVE
  Not comprehensive; not capable of including or of understanding; not extensive; limited. -- In*com`pre*hen"sive*ly, a. Sir W. Hamilton. -- In*com`pre*hen"sive*ness, n. T. Warton.
• SPIROSCOPE
  A wet meter used to determine the breathing capacity of the lungs.
• MEGASCOPE
  A modification of the magic lantern, used esp. for throwing a magnified image of an opaque object on a screen, solar or artificial light being used.