different between comprehensive vs diffusive

English

Etymology

Borrowed from late Middle French compréhensif, from Late Latin comprehensivus, from Latin comprehendo.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?m.p???h?n.s?v/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k??m.p???h?n.s?v/
• Hyphenation: com?pre?hen?sive

Adjective

comprehensive (comparative more comprehensive, superlative most comprehensive)

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

Synonyms

• (broadly or completely covering): exhaustive, thorough, all-encompassing

Derived terms

• comprehensively
• comprehensivization
• comprehensivize

Related terms

• comprehend
• comprehensible
• comprehension

Translations

Noun

comprehensive (plural comprehensives)

1. (Britain) A comprehensive school.

Latin

Adjective

compreh?ns?ve

1. vocative masculine singular of compreh?ns?vus

English

Etymology

From post-classical Latin diffusivus (“tending to spread; expansive”) (13th century), from participle stem of Latin diffundere (“diffuse, disperse”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??fju?s?v/

Adjective

diffusive (comparative more diffusive, superlative most diffusive)

1. That is spread or dispersed across a wide area or among a large number of people. [from 17th c.]
2. Involving or employing many words; expansive, discursive; (in negative sense) long-winded. [from 17th c.]
   • 1791, Edward Gibbon, Memoirs of My Life, Penguin 1990, p. 182:

     I can never forget the delight with which that diffusive and ingenious orator was heard by all sides of the House, and even by those whose existence he proscribed.

3. That diffuses something; disseminating. [from 17th c.]
4. (sciences) Pertaining to diffusion. [from 19th c.]

Derived terms

• diffusive equilibrium

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.fy.ziv/
• Homophone: diffusives

Adjective

diffusive

1. feminine singular of diffusif

Italian

Adjective

diffusive

1. feminine plural of diffusivo

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /dif.fu??si?.u?e/, [d??f?u??s?i?u??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /dif.fu?si.ve/, [d?if?u?s?i?v?]

Adjective

diff?s?ve

1. vocative masculine singular of diff?s?vus