comprehensively

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Etymology

Etymology tree

English comprehensive

Proto-Indo-European *leyg-

Proto-Germanic *līkąder.

Proto-Germanic *-līkaz

Proto-Germanic *-ê

Proto-Germanic *-līkê

Old English -līċe

Middle English -ly

English -ly

English comprehensively

From comprehensive + -ly.

Adverb

comprehensively (comparative more comprehensively, superlative most comprehensively)

1. In a comprehensive manner; in an all-inclusive or wide-ranging fashion.
   • 2011 October 15, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 1 - 1 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport‎^[1], archived from the original on 21 October 2022:

     Ferguson, perhaps recalling how United had been comprehensively outfought in the 3-1 defeat at Liverpool last season, opted for a side with a more pragmatic look with Phil Jones moved into a midfield role.

   • 2023 June, Malvina Hoxha, Bruno Zappacosta, “Meteoropathy: a review on the current state of knowledge”, in Journal of Medicine and Life‎^[2], volume 16, number 6, →DOI, archived from the original on 14 July 2025, pages 837-841:

     This study aimed to comprehensively review and analyze existing in vivo animal studies and human clinical trials investigating the effects of meteoropathy on health and its pharmacological treatment.

Synonyms

• completely, exhaustively, thoroughly, totally; see also Thesaurus:completely

Translations

in a comprehensive manner

• Bulgarian: обши́рно (bg) (obšírno), подро́бно (bg) (podróbno), обсто́йно (bg) (obstójno), ця́лостнo (bg) (cjálostno)
• Catalan: comprensivament (ca)
• Dutch: uit-en-te-na (nl)
• Finnish: laajasti (fi), kattavasti, kokonaisvaltaisesti (fi)
• Polish: kompleksowo, wszechstronnie (pl)
• Spanish: comprehensivamente