Exemplary vs Comprehensive - What's the difference?
exemplary | comprehensive |
Deserving honour, respect and admiration.
Of such high quality that it should serve as an example to be imitated.
* Francis Bacon
Ideal or perfect.
Serving as a warning; monitory.
(obsolete) An example, or typical instance; an exemplar
(obsolete) A copy of a book or writing.
Broadly]] or completely covering; [[include, including a large proportion of something.
(British) A comprehensive school.
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As adjectives the difference between exemplary and comprehensive
is that exemplary is deserving honour, respect and admiration while comprehensive is .As a noun exemplary
is (obsolete) an example, or typical instance; an exemplar.exemplary
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- [Bishops'] lives and doctrines ought to be exemplary .
- as, exemplary justice, punishment, or damages
Noun
(exemplaries)- (Donne)
comprehensive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* (broadly or completely covering) exhaustive, thorough, all-encompassingDerived terms
* comprehensively * comprehensivization * comprehensivizeNoun
(en noun)Finland spreads word on schools, passage=Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.}} ----